Thar She Doesn't Blow

Friends, do you remember that crazy period we had for a while where people said that George W. Bush and the Republican party were responsible for hurricanes? We had hurricanes all around us, and it was because we evil GOP-ers refused to do anything about global warming, which was causing these hurricanes and subjecting us to something like divine wrath.

Indeed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a piece in The Huffington Post after Hurricane Katrina: “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind.” You may be shocked to be reminded what people were saying, because it has been four years: almost four years exactly since Katrina, although the nuttiness about Bush and hurricanes lasted well beyond Katrina.

Why am I bringing all this up? This morning, I saw a headline from the AP: “Hurricane season has been a dud — so far.” The article is here. And it points out that “only two hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic over the past three months, and neither hit the U.S. — a somewhat unusual lull.”

That Barack Obama: He may not have lowered the oceans yet — has he? — but he has certainly stopped the hurricanes.

What a crazy country we are, sometimes. As George Gilder pointed out recently, the real threat to us is not the Islamists or the ChiComs or anybody else: It’s us.