Unstoppable Global Smarming

David from Elk River e-mails to report that skis won't be the only thing getting waxed this week in Hayward:

The American Birkebeiner--the largest citizen Nordic ski race in North America--has showings and discussions of "an Inconvenient Truth" at 3:00 and 6:30pm today [and tomorrow!]. There is no mention of who the moderator is or what his political persuasion happens to be, but since our own Minneapolis Mayor Rybak couldn't help adding a plug for man-made global warming into a trail report he submitted earlier this winter, I am not optimistic. My son wanted to go race at this event, but we also don't want to participate in a venue that is hosted by blatant leftists. If only they could leave the politics aside and just enjoy an athletic event….But I am afraid to them it is not a debatable political issue; it is a fact, and they just don't understand why there is opposition to their solution.

BTW, I wrote the host of the aforementioned trail report website and asked him to edit the trail report, which he did fairly promptly. He removed the poetic editorial about global warming and how we should all use less energy, and left the trail report portion of the report intact.