The Bush administration taking us all for idiots, that's the subject. Another recent article in the NY Times told us that an administration-commissioned study says yes, the planet's atmosphere is warming and yes, human activity is a major factor in that. The administration, though, cautions that this is only the first of 21 planned studies.

Does anyone remember a young basketball player, new to the NBA (his name escapes me right now) who was diagnosed with a serious heart condition and told to stop playing? This was maybe 15 years ago. He went for another opinion, and another. He went to, literally, 12 cardiologists who all told him the same thing. Then he saw another, who said he thought the condition was actually something else, something rarer, harder to diagnose, but not dangerous. So the kid went back to playing. And, again literally, within weeks had a heart seizure on the court and fell down dead.

So much for additional studies.