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A Few Notes

By Theresa Camoriano

1.       Good Samaritan or thief? -- Louisville’s Archbishop Kurtz recently wrote a letter in the Louisville newspaper urging us all to contact our elected officials to promote more U.S. government aid to foreign countries.  It seems he mistakenly read the story of the Good Samaritan to teach us that we should help people in need by reaching into our neighbors’ pockets!  But I thought the Samaritan used his own money to help the injured traveler.  I guess I’ll have to re-read that story.  Maybe the Archbishop should re-read it too. 

2.       Little elves or middle-aged women? – Do you remember all those fairy tales you heard as a child in which people would go to bed and, when they got up in the morning, all the chores had magically been done by elves?  Even as a child, I always found those stories hard to believe.  However, as my insomnia prompted me to unload the dishwasher and clean up the kitchen at 4 a.m., I realized that those stories probably were true, and the little elves were really middle-aged insomniacs!

3.       Having faith in the scientific “experts” -- A recent article in our local paper by a scientific “expert” advised that we should use biofuels to reduce carbon emissions in order to reduce global warming.  Apparently, this scientific “expert” did not realize that biofuels are carbon-based and produce carbon emissions when they are burned, just as oil does!  (Not to mention that the production of biofuels such as the production of ethanol from corn is so inefficient that it typically takes more energy to produce the fuel than we can recover from it.)  This energy “expert” also dreamed of the development of a new energy source that does not emit carbon, apparently forgetting that we already have such a source in the form of nuclear energy, which has been widely and safely used in Europe for many years and currently provides about 80% of France’s energy.  Well, he might have gotten those simple, basic scientific facts wrong, but surely we can have faith in him when he pronounces that we are facing an environmental catastrophe unless we curb our energy usage and cripple our economy.  Yes, faith is what is needed – certainly not a careful analysis of the scientific evidence, which would reveal that our “expert” is pretty shaky on his “global warming” theory too.

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