What is particularly telling is that the Schoolhouse staging of a big-time flop teaches us a lesson about how Broadway pressures, misunderstandings and, yes, too many egos, can be put into perspective in a saner climate, where the artistic rules over the commercial.
Anyone who has said anything sane about climate change, evolution, gay marriage or the economy took a look at what it would take to be nominated and bowed out.
Many of the Republicans used to -- John McCain has done an amazing about-face from being a sane voice on climate to a shrill denier -- and they present a horrific obstacle to any international treaties.
The fringe of the party made it nearly impossible for any sane Republican candidate to even mention climate change, let alone vow to do anything about it.
The Arctic, and all that depends on its pristine landscapes and a healthy climate, deserves a safer, saner future.
This isn't a sane fire policy for an era of climate change, which is predicted to cause drier conditions in the Western United States and already has expanded the length of the fire season.
Well-respected scientists and journalists have come to some scarily sane-sounding conclusions about the threat human-induced climate change poses to the survival of the human species.
Since the GOP is full of climate-deniers - like all their candidates for governor of North Carolina - it's ok to label them the party of Climate Bagdad Bobs who are obstacles to sane environmental policies.
My question is this: why would any sane person want to be elected president of these disunited states in this toxic economic and political climate?
