A Pee Wee intellect

In response to the July 15 Spokane City Council climate change ordinance column by Sue Lani Madsen - who appears to present herself as some sort of rural troglodytic mutated version of a Bennett Cerf/Neil DeGrasse Tyson/Charles Krauthammer/Phyllis Schlafly hybrid - a few analogies appear to be in order.

She is to deep scientific ecological knowledge as the Aryan Brotherhood is to peaceful cultural exchange.

She is to broadly enlightened thought as Pee Wee Herman is to the culture of machismo.

She is to the understanding of co-existence among conflicting urban and suburban perspectives as Edwall, Washington (her hometown) is to the intellectual center of the universe.

An otherwise respectable locally-owned news publication like the Spokesman-Review continuing to devote football-field lengths of column inches to Ms. Madsen’s unique brand of selective tunnel vision for semi-alternative factually tortured logic would be akin to the Columbia Journalism Review welcoming radio host Alex E. Jones as a monthly commentator.

But in the age of President Drumpf the hybrid self-perceived populist/fossil fuels facilitator and Hillary Clinton the hybrid neoliberal/Drumpf resistor/Monsanto crony, up is down, down is up and we’ll all be just peachy if we relax in our recliners and turn on our Netflix.

Rob Ethington

Spokane