CALL ME SNAKE

Last night on the local news, a dippy weatherman I’d never seen before talked about how oppressive it was outside (low-to-mid 70s though humid). “You’d better just crank up your air conditioning and try to get through it,” she said. Actually, it wasn’t uncomfortable at all. We don’t have air conditioning, and I didn’t even need to turn a fan on. But she said people better turn up their air conditioners without delay. There’s a thing called global warming, and we need to get smarter about our energy use. I’m not saying we should do away with air conditioning, but people ought to use some discretion, which is the opposite of what this weatherman, or “weatherperson,” was advocating.