Liberals politicize the movies they make, the athletes they lionize, and, increasingly, the weather they get. On his HBO program this weekend, politicomedian Bill Maher wondered if the fires in Southern California will be "a Rock-Hudson-has-AIDS moment" for global warming. "One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters last week. "The rest of us can't be in there fighting fires, you know?," noted environmentalist Bill McKibben. "We're thousands of miles away. What we can be doing is trying to put out, or at least damp down, the big fire that's causing all these other effects, and that's global warming. And that can only be done with federal action soon." Forest fires predate SUVs, styrofoam cups, and unrecycled cans. Don't tell that to liberals. Political explanations, rather than natural explanations, are better for their business.

Heat causes fire. Oh, but don't tell that to conservatives.

So do Hispanics.

The Mexicanization of California has more to do w/ the Cali forest fires than global warming does. (Diversion of water sources, increased aridity, overusage of limited and porrly managed water sources).