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A Few Thoughts

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Which candidates do you favor?  The Kentucky primaries are coming up in a couple of weeks, and we have lots of candidates to choose from.  Which ones do you favor?  I would love to receive your letters explaining which candidates you support and why.  Send them to Editor@JeffersonReview.com and we will publish them.

Congratulations to Amobi Okoye, the University of Louisville football player who was drafted in the first round!  It is great to see that there still are rewards for talent and hard work.  It doesn’t matter whether you have been on the cover of Sports Illustrated or whether sports commentators have touted you all season.  What matters is whether the teams think you will perform and help them win games.  Best wishes to Okoye!

Baseballs for self defense?  A recent letter to the editor in the Louisville paper suggested that all students should carry baseballs in their backpacks and be taught how to use them so that, if a murderer came to kill them, as occurred at Virginia Tech, they could all pummel him with baseballs to disable him.  I guess, as long as teachers and college students with concealed carry permits are forcibly disarmed on college campuses, baseballs are the best option for self defense, but we certainly could do better. 

The importance of science education – We have been told by Mitch McConnell that it is important for our young people to get a good education in math and science in order to be competitive in the world economy.  No doubt he is correct.  However, in addition to making us competitive, a good science education might also help us learn how to think logically and understand science-related issues so we will not be so vulnerable to politically-motivated junk science.  For example, someone who has a decent science education would understand that “global warming” is not nearly as simple as Al Gore claims.  He would understand that we cannot begin to model all the elements that go into affecting the earth’s climate and cannot possibly know with any degree of certainty to what extent the burning of fossil fuels affects it.  Such a person would understand that water vapor is a much more important greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, that solar activity has a great effect on climate, and that the earth’s climate has always been changing.  He also would question whether so-called “global warming” would be harmful to mankind and whether it is feasible or even desirable to try to do anything about it. 

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