Southern Fried Ratepayer

Residents of the Christian state of Texas may wish to emulate the bluebelly General Sheridan and live in Hell instead. They are suffering a forty-degree heat-wave, probably exacerbated by climate change, and have been left without air conditioning because of disruption to the electricity supply caused by an unseasonably strong hurricane whose strength was probably exacerbated by climate change. Fortunately, the state's governor is unlikely to be among the casualties: Greg Abbott does not deny that the climate is changing, but does not share the opinion of godless scientists that human activity is responsible or that somebody ought to do something about it. Accordingly, as befits a Trumpsterite he has toddled off to Asia and left his fellow rugged individualists to fend for themselves.