Is It Me, Or Is It Hot In Here?

Why all the hats and jackets?

I’m not a man of strong faith, so I’m constantly looking for signs of God working around me. As a comic I have to believe that God has a sense of humor. Yesterday those two things ran smack into each other in Washington D.C.

In the middle of the worst spring blizzard of the past thirty years, and with temperatures in the twenties, some of those sharp minds who have “settled” the global warming debate held a protest. I kept thinking of that line from the old folk song “Oh, Susanna”: the sun so hot I froze to death.” Both Steven Biel of Greenpeace and the website for Capitol Climate Action said it was the “largest act of civil disobedience for climate change” in the history of the United States.” (more…)