By the Time I Get to Phoenix

I've always been fascinated with Phoenix; it's just so very different from Madison. I saw it from the highway back in 1972 - but that was like unto a different lifetime. I was going to visit Phoenix about seven or eight years ago - then I g...ot more and more bad news about the place. It realy wasn't the incredibly hostile climate (I'm a winter kind of guy) that put me off - it was the incredibly hostile climate, as in the murderously reactionary political reality now enveloping Arizona. Anyway, I'm definitely voting to the effect that Phoenix will become absolutely unlivable in the fairly near future, for all the reasons Mr. deBuys expounds. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-debuys-phoenix-and-climate-change-20130314,0,4490600.story