Tom McLaughlin: Incoherent campaign

“The End Is Near!” was a recurring theme in the old Mad magazine, which ceased publishing last summer after a 67-year run. As a kid, I read it religiously and was surprised it stayed around that long as I hadn’t seen a copy for decades. Turning pages of each new edition in the Fifties and Sixties, I’d see caricature variations of a gray-bearded man in a robe carrying a sign warning of impending apocalypse. Mad satirized everything; it was totally unserious, and that appealed to me.

Some of that unseriousness is still in me, especially when hearing leftist Democrats preach variations of their “The End Is Near” rhetoric. They’ve long sermonized about doom from “global warming” or “climate change” during which the polar ice caps and alpine glaciers will ostensibly melt, flood the oceans and kill millions unless we “Repent Now!” by abandoning fossil fuels, buying carbon credits, and totally switching over to windmills and solar panels.