15 Minutes of Flame

Let’s give some love to our icy round friends at the North and South Poles, the snowmen.

The snowmen are taking a lot of heat this week.

First Mitt Romney said that he didn’t want to participate in a CNN/YouTube debate because “I think the presidency ought to be held to a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.”

Here is the snowman’s response to that!

Then the San Francisco Chronicle editorial page editor got into the act by saying the Democratic candidates had to endure “the little indignity of having to respond to the cartoonish snowman.”

I am happy the snowman is getting his day in the sun. The snowman's original question to the candidates was “I've a growing concern that global warming, the single most important issue to the snowmen of this country, is being neglected. What will you do to ensure that my son will live a full and happy life?” Ok, so his voice is a little squeaky, but the question about global warming is right on pitch.

I say let’s give the redwood trees a question too. And the endangered turtles. Don’t tempt me, I just might submit a question from a polar bear. 

Let’s hear one from the birds caught in the San Francisco Bay oil spill: “My fellow feathered friends would like to know how we can buy more gifts locally, instead of importing goods on boats powered by bunker fuel.”

Nature cannot whip out its webcam and post on YouTube. That is why we have to speak for her or him. Nature does give us signs, like the Arctic ice melting, that speak as loudly as any high-def TV with surround sound. I wonder whom the snowman is voting for in the primaries on February 5th?