甚至清點選票對北卡羅來納州來說也太科學了

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我沒時間搞這個。我很忙。我正在趕一個專案的截止日期,這個專案實際上能掙錢,能讓我孩子們吃上乳酪通心粉。所以儘管我喜歡這個部落格,但我現在沒時間更新。

但還是開始了。

北卡羅來納州?你還記得吧:這個州反對海平面上升科學? 這個州的環境與自然資源部 (Department of Environment and Natural Resources)負責人質疑氣候變化科學並認為石油是可再生資源? 這個州試圖任命一位幼兒教育主管,她認為福島地震可能是朝鮮的超聲波造成的? 就是那個北卡羅來納州?


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各位,這沒什麼。我們有新的記錄了。

共和黨控制的立法機構現在反對的科學方法是……計數。沒錯——為了不顧一切地擺脫北卡羅來納州的可再生能源計劃,立法機構放棄了激進的、自由主義的、主流的、明顯主觀的“科學”,即,嗯,實際清點選票。 你看,當實際清點選票時,本應取消可再生能源計劃的法案(以及聲稱風能等不是可再生能源)在州眾議院被否決了,以18票對13票未能透過委員會

好吧,嗯……你是共和黨議員邁克·黑格 (Mike Hager),你討厭可再生能源計劃,而你的法案剛剛以五票的無可爭議的差距被否決了。 怎麼辦……怎麼辦? 簡單。你重新提出了該法案。 當它下次在委員會中提出時,這次是在州參議院?你進行了口頭表決——並讓你的財政委員會主席,共和黨人比爾·雷本 (Bill Rabon)拒絕清點實際的選票。 在一次口頭表決中,雙方都聲稱如果清點選票他們就會獲勝,雷本宣佈該法案已透過並跑開了。

不,我希望我是編造的,但我沒有。 我們已經在北卡羅來納州放棄了清點選票。 錯誤的統治在這裡至高無上。

還有更多的委員會廢話要走,以及整個參議院,以及所有這些“我只是個法案”之類的東西。 但事實是令人髮指的簡單。 儘管民主黨州參議員喬什·斯坦 (Josh Stein)(“北卡羅來納州不是香蕉共和國”)的呼喊,嗯……喬什? 是的,就是。 當一個政體變成香蕉共和國時,你就能看出來:一旦它忽視了人民及其代表的聲音,它就完成了轉變。 並且讓我告訴你。 我是北卡羅來納州人民中的一員,如果說我對北卡羅來納州人民有什麼瞭解的話,那就是我們的州參議院剛剛證明的,無論是科學的還是其他的

我們。不。計數。

 

 

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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