Posted 8:17 AM by Gene

JonBoy's developed a new twist: He screams THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!! in a heavily ironic way. I wouldn't try gags like that more often Jon -- yes, they elevate you in ST. WARREN's Heaven, but they might decline you in the CIRC. Oh, I forgot. You're subscribed to by three million automatically renewing coffee tables.

Alas, all isn't well on the LAST PAGE of the story:

Look for the next round of debate to center on what Americans are willing to pay and do to stave off the worst of global warming. So far the answer seems to be, not much. The NEWSWEEK Poll finds less than half in favor of requiring high-mileage cars or energy-efficient appliances and buildings.

DAMMIT JonBoy, we're going to have to work harder to reduce our cir -- energy consumption!

That JonBoy realizes there may be a limit to insulting his readers' intelligence is evident in that his irony doesn't front-cover the international editions; these he devotes to all the new ugly buildings going up in Beijing -- a good leadoff for our synergistic GAMES coverage. Presumably the huge poisonous clouds China belches into the air are -- non global-warming producing. They certainly are cover-fawn producing.

This isn't as bad as L'AFFAIRE LEIBOVITZ, but a faint globally-warming smell of cow flatulence is there.