The nutjobs, my friend, are blowing in the wind.

You can't make everyone happy. Especially when it comes to energy. I mean, everyone wants their lights (and televisions, by God) to come on, but no one wants to own a house near a power plant or live in a town with a nuclear reactor. Or, apparently, a wind farm.

I've driven from L.A. to Palm Springs, where there are thousands of turbines dotting the desert, and I think wind farms are kind of pretty in a post-modern sort of way, I guess. I was proud to read that an enterprising fellow is opening one on Mount Jericho in the fair state of New Hampshire.

But, no such project goes without controversy, as some folks in upstate New York are protesting a wind farm because it'll reduce property values and look ugly (I guess they're not as PoMo as I am). Also, according to Wired:

Other complaints are a little further from reality. In a recent symposium held by the Concerned Citizens for Steuben County, one speaker compared the sound of the spinning blades and whirring machinery (which most people find inaudible from fairly close distances) to the noises Nazi troops tortured Jews with during the holocaust.

Group members also warned of health problems ranging from strokes caused by the sunlight as it pulsates through the spinning turbine blades to mange in cattle. Others claimed that women living near the wind farms are having as many as five menstrual cycles a month.

Yes. That wind farm is a way for someone to torture you, Upstater, just like the Nazis tortured the Jews. Just like that.

Nuclear power and toxic waste? Fine. Sending people into mountains to dig for coal (which is, as Tobs and Josh have rightly noted, completely absurd)? Fine. But wind turbines? Those'll give ol' Bossy the mange and your old lady will be having feminine problems five times a month!

Cite your source. The tinker who sold you your snake oil last month? Old Pappy McGhee who knows when it's going to rain on a account of his rheumatism?

This guy is PoMo like I am. And makes an interesting case for putting alternative energy for vehicles on hold while we step up the effort to make our living electricity greener.

I'm sorry...Really? Mange?

I respectfully request that the Concerned Citizens for Steuben County please stop breeding until further notice (your making rural people look like idiots!). I also have a bridge I'd like to sell them.