Birdbrains

In a recent column, George Will claimed that power-generating windmills will kill more birds than the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Other conservatives have called the windmills eyesores.

Eyesores. The Right is deeply offended by these eyesores.

After hundreds of years of smoke-belching factories, coal mines, oil derricks and refineries suffered without complaint, the Right has suddenly developed compassion for animals and a sense of aesthetics.