I wish I had archer's brain

I mean, maybe I don't have a sense of humor right now because I'm stuck in a mid-evening phone conference which is mostly in Japanese and thus forcing me to listen without comprehension for that sudden fiercely-inflected interrogative "Don?" that signals a requirement on my part to be alert and knowledgeable and confident but never mind that, even if I carved out a few hours' time and lubricated it with one of my birthday bottles of Patrón there is no way I could make this article about new Christmas children's books that are based on global-warmism any funnier or more satirical than it is, unintentionally, all on its own. They've got it all:

Turn off lights to save polar bears!

Santa as the Global-warming Grinch!

Grand Grifter Gore!

Note, there's nothing wrong with turning out lights and saving energy. I was taught to do that as a kid. But unproven theories that more and more scientists are decrying as bad science and premature alarmism (I'm talking anthropogenic global warming here) is a hilarious way to get a book sold. Hey, it can work, and I wanna be an author too, and we all respect a well-run con game. But geez. I only wish I had the brain right now to expand on the humor in it.

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Speakin' a humor, I think it's hilarious that we tell our large and very demanding (and very quality-driven, please buy their products) customer that "engineering teams" say this or are doing that, when by "engineering teams" we really mean "that guy over in the cubicle by the wall who just got out of college."

(Yes, yes, there are engineering women but let's face it, the females in this profession usually end up in management.)

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All three-part blog posts need a third part, so now I'm writing it. I asked a bunch of fellow anthropogenic-global-warming skeptics why it always seemed to be engineers who were not only conservatively libertarian-minded but skeptical about such crowd-pleasers as anthropogenic global warming and the answer was the very obvious, "Because engineers know how to read and analyze data." Oh. Yeah. I guess one could allege as much.