Written by: Beck

Do you remember how during the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore made Bush's environmental record a major issue? Their one bit of irrefutable evidence that Bush was the environmental anti-Christ: during Bush's term as Gov. of TX, Houston moved into first place in the American city air-pollution rankings. Am I the only one who noticed you haven't been hearing any of that this year? Granted, the fact that it was during Bush's governorship makes it largely irrelevant, but you'd still expect to see jackasses like Al Franken to bring it up as a dig every day or two. Instead they just bitch and moan about things most Americans either don't care about, or actually think is a good thing (like drilling for oil in the Alaskan wilderness). I think I have an idea why.

By pure chance, I stumbled on this article at CNN this morning. It would seem California in general and L.A. in particular has retaken the lead in the pollution territory. I love that the nation's biggest hotbed of lefty looney enviro-Nazis is also the most polluted place in the nation.

For the worst smog category, Houston now comes in 5th. 1st through 4th are all taken by CA cities, with L.A. leading the way. Dallas-Fort Worth gets 10th place, with the only other non CA or TX city being Knoxville, TN in 9th place. For the Most Particle Pollution category, L.A. retains its grip on first place, with cities in CA taking up fully half of the top 10. Houston? Not even in the top ten. It dropped completely out of the rankings. Ditto for Dallas.

So to anyone reading who's inclined to sympathize with the fruits, nuts, and flakes in that giant cereal bowl California, I would simply invite you to suck on a car's tail pipe. Except that would be redundant.