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Some Wisconsin Water Is Comparable to a Third World Country (Thanks, Scott Walker)

Esquire: If there's anything more basic to the idea of a commonwealth, it's water. (Even though presidential dead-ender Senator Aqua Buddha has told us that we do not have a right to aqua, although how we can exercise our right to life without it he does not pause to explain. Perhaps we can obtain it with all the money we save on pants.) Nowhere more than in Wisconsin under Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their Midwest subsidiary, has the very idea of the commons...

Maybe We Should Talk About Climate Change Now

Esquire: Add Andrew Cuomo of New York to the list of east-coast governors who are willing to acknowledge reality when they wake up and discover that half the Grand Banks has decided to pay a visit inland. "There has been a series of extreme weather incidents. That is not a political statement, that is a factual statement ... Anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think is denying reality," Cuomo said. And, of course, there is nothing new about any of this. "Sea level...