MORE THINGS THAT AREN'T THAT DIFFERENT

On May 18th, in the NYT Week in Review section, Cass Sunstein argued that it was strange that the administration was willing to go to war because of the risk that Saddam Hussein might have WMD's and might pass them on to terrorists, but that it wasn't willing to engage in emissions regulation because global warming was still a theory. The risk of global warming isn't proven, scientifically, at least to Bush's taste. What's different about the risk of Iraqi WMD's?

Whatever.

MORE: Eric's diagnosis of my problem here: I spent too much time reading Kant. He might be right.