甚至清点选票对北卡罗来纳州来说也太科学了

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我没时间搞这个。我很忙。我正在赶一个项目的截止日期,这个项目实际上能挣钱,能让我孩子们吃上奶酪通心粉。所以尽管我喜欢这个博客,但我现在没时间更新。

但还是开始了。

北卡罗来纳州?你还记得吧:这个州反对海平面上升科学? 这个州的环境与自然资源部 (Department of Environment and Natural Resources)负责人质疑气候变化科学并认为石油是可再生资源? 这个州试图任命一位幼儿教育主管,她认为福岛地震可能是朝鲜的超声波造成的? 就是那个北卡罗来纳州?


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各位,这没什么。我们有新的记录了。

共和党控制的立法机构现在反对的科学方法是……计数。没错——为了不顾一切地摆脱北卡罗来纳州的可再生能源计划,立法机构放弃了激进的、自由主义的、主流的、明显主观的“科学”,即,嗯,实际清点选票。 你看,当实际清点选票时,本应取消可再生能源计划的法案(以及声称风能等不是可再生能源)在州众议院被否决了,以18票对13票未能通过委员会

好吧,嗯……你是共和党议员迈克·黑格 (Mike Hager),你讨厌可再生能源计划,而你的法案刚刚以五票的无可争议的差距被否决了。 怎么办……怎么办? 简单。你重新提出了该法案。 当它下次在委员会中提出时,这次是在州参议院?你进行了口头表决——并让你的财政委员会主席,共和党人比尔·雷本 (Bill Rabon)拒绝清点实际的选票。 在一次口头表决中,双方都声称如果清点选票他们就会获胜,雷本宣布该法案已通过并跑开了。

不,我希望我是编造的,但我没有。 我们已经在北卡罗来纳州放弃了清点选票。 错误的统治在这里至高无上。

还有更多的委员会废话要走,以及整个参议院,以及所有这些“我只是个法案”之类的东西。 但事实是令人发指的简单。 尽管民主党州参议员乔什·斯坦 (Josh Stein)(“北卡罗来纳州不是香蕉共和国”)的呼喊,嗯……乔什? 是的,就是。 当一个政体变成香蕉共和国时,你就能看出来:一旦它忽视了人民及其代表的声音,它就完成了转变。 并且让我告诉你。 我是北卡罗来纳州人民中的一员,如果说我对北卡罗来纳州人民有什么了解的话,那就是我们的州参议院刚刚证明的,无论是科学的还是其他的

我们。不。计数。

 

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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