Milkweed traveler
For my left-of-center comrades, the election went badly... very badly. It was sad enough when Texas Republican and climate-science denier Lamar Smith took over the chairmanship of the House of Representatives' Science, Technology, and Space Committee in 2012, but House idiocy could be blunted by the still-Democrat-controlled Senate. In the aftermath of yesterday's truly terrifying defeat, the Senate is gone and oversight of environmental science will be in the hands of Oklahoma's James Inhofe. From my perspective, and I'm hardly alone, it couldn't be worse: a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. So there's awful change blowing in the wind, and if things continue going the way we've seen, then this poor milkweed seed might as well land in concrete... or lava... Its chances for a good environmental future are diminishing by the minute.