Brian Gongol



But among Sen. McCain's rather large field of possible running mates, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal ought not be overlooked. He's received some national attention lately.

Perhaps the lesson to be learned from all of this is that we really don't know what the climate will be like with any high degree of certainty for more than a year or two at a time. And as climate goes, so goes the food supply. And as we've learned about the food supply lately, we're downright awful about storing enough of the surplus in the good years. The last thing we need right now is for 6.5 billion people to go hungry because of some freak event like a volcanic eruption that ends up shattering a year's worth of food production, as happened in the early 1800s.
