[This is my third attempt at this. Really. I may have broken my keyboard...]
This in the Times today: E.P.A. Says 17 States Can’t Set Emission Rules.
“[Stephen L. Johnson], the E.P.A. administrator, cited federal law, not science, as the underpinning of his decision. ‘Climate change affects everyone regardless of where greenhouse gases occur, so California is not exclusive,’ he said.”
[After much typing I have honed my response to this:]
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[But I can't help mentioning that I was writing about the current admins touting of States' rights (funny lot, those guys in charge), what the acronym E.P.A. stands for (this is a whopping parenthetical but it is inside parens so I guess that works - did you know that there is some discussion about whether things like E.P.A. are actually acronyms? Seems some folks think it's just an initialism), how Mr. Stephen L. Johnson came by his job, etc.
I would just get going and it would all devolve into strings of (expletive deleted). It's just so (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) amazing to see this kind of (expletive deleted) going on again and (expletive deleted) again (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted)...
Well, see, that's what happens.]
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