A very common -- and insufferable -- tactic of national sports announcers is to define a game's narrative. While remaining supposedly neutral, commentators pick each team's strengths & weaknesses and how they will play out in the game. The game that's yet to be actually played.
Funny things often happen as the contest progresses, however. Quite often the teams buck conventional wisdom -- the good are proven bad, the bad are proven worse, the presumed defensive battle becomes an offensive shootout.
In football, halftime serves as the "reset period" for our proud analysts. The opening minutes of the 3rd quarter either give opportunity to hold to the narrative or, clumsily & in ugly fashion, witness the network's finest cut and run.
I bring up this little parable in conjunction with two items crossing my virtual desk this afternoon.
The first is a commentary piece in Canada's National Post about stalled global warming and its likely explanations.
The second is a brief news item in England's Sunday Times on the comparative environmental merits of disposable diapers versus previously-thought-to-be-better washable nappies (that's British for diaper - worldly opinion here).
Both articles highlight the environmentalists' emotional investment in their quest to save the world -- not through rigorous discovery, but denial of heretical views and the adoption of that which is deemed worthy and good, regardless of facts.
Case in point is the Times' citation of a government report on impact to the environment from diapers.
You see, these good and just folks came in with the notion the washable nappy -- er, diaper is the obvious earth-friendly choice. It turns out instead that disposables leave a smaller carbon footprint. As any parent will tell you they're also simpler to use, making them highly popular. So everybody wins, right?
Unfortunately, no. The report is to be "delayed" until "modifications" can be made. Apparently, the public isn't to be trusted to learn a truth that undermines -- though by no means destroys -- the activist-ministry's cause. That is, the truth should be suppressed because it doesn't agree with environmentalist dogma. It's religulous, I tell ya!
These blind adherents are clearly wrong. Just like the ESPN crew covering the Cleveland Browns presumed defeat to the New York Giants last week. Ditto the Fox guys watching the Rams dismantle the Cowboys yesterday. True to form, both crews hit the reset button after halftime and altered their game view.
Our radical green activists feel no such compulsion. Sadly, they fail to recognize this game is playing out for all to see.
And we will.
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