Searching for the rational

A lot of folks deny that climate change is occuring because of the influence of man, despite volumes of statistical evidence to the contrary. That's fine, and no matter how infuriating it is, we've done that dance. The point is that a logical discussion over the best way to curb the impact of climate change doesn't really exist in our country because a large number of people in power simply don't believe it's real.

This is depressing, but it's not surprising when you consider Rep. Paul Broun's town hall meeting in Commerce this morning.

Broun believes the purpose of the police is to catch criminals after the fact, and up until that point it ought to be every man for himself. In his world, if someone's breaking in to my house, I'm a fool for trying to notify the authorities and should, instead, come downstairs with two guns a-blazing.

Broun thinks Rep. Nancy Pelosi is a 'domestic enemy of the Constitution.'

Broun thinks that Democrats are out to ban bicycles and Coke and coffee and all sorts of other things in an attempt to 'control you' ... though I really don't know what that means.

Listen, you can't have rationale discourse with people like this. It's not as if you can sit down and have the types of common sense policy debates we ought to be having where the discussion recognizes a common end and then analyzes the best way to reach said end.

For folks like Broun, there is no end.

And if there is no end, you get to just concoct things which make absolutely no sense.