The blackout was a fine opportunity to observe what buffoons and knaves so many politicians and pundits are. Mayor Bloomberg: this is no big deal. Right, millions of people out in the sun for hours on a hot humid day with no place to go would perhaps disagree. Jean Chrétien: this head of a sophisticated, modern government blamed the blackout on lightning in Niagara Falls, New York. Our local weather man checked the reports for the day and refuted the bizarre prime minister who has access to hundreds of technical experts. Hillary Clinton: more big government will solve the problem. To this powerluster who has produced not so much as a spark herself, I ask: name one good or service that a truly free market has failed to provide to thirty million people willing and able to pay the market price? Bill O’Reilly: this vanity case now thinks he is qualified to explain how the electrical grid works. George Bush: this was not terrorist attack and we will try very hard to figure out what happened, where, when and why. This guy’s a real oxymoron. S. David Freeman: you would think a guy who works for the California Power Authority would have offed himself out of sheer embarrassment. No, this browned-out joker is blaming “Adam Smith” for the blackout. But every aspect of power production is heavily regulated at the state and federal levels. To all of the above hacks and flacks, I say, F.E.R.C. you.

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