28 March—Forgive the late post again. This time, the web-host server was to blame. The Litchfield Monitor is, as always, totally innocent.

Joe Lieberman died yesterday, a month after his 82^nd birthday, due to complications from a fall (in the Bronx, for which he had forsaken Connecticut). He was a lifelong politician, even after his retirement from the U.S. Senate. And, aside from presiding over an incompetent Connecticut Office of the Attorney General for six years, going back on his word to serve only three terms in the Senate and support Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, and pushing internet censorship—aside from those lapses, he was a pretty decent pol and far more ballsy and principled than virtually all of his political colleagues.

Joe Lieberman also was a better writer than virtually all of his political colleagues. We should be most grateful to him, though, for saving us from the presidency of Albert Gore Jr. While Joe has tactfully denied it and there’s no way to prove the point either way, it’s entirely possible that when he, an actual orthodox sabbath-observing, kosher-eating Jew (the first—and as of this writing the only—one in the U.S. Senate), was Gore’s running mate in the 2000 presidential election, all the Jew haters who would otherwise have voted for the Gore-Lieberman ticket chose instead to vote for Bush-Cheney or any of the fringe tickets that didn’t include a Jew.

We’re grateful for major mercies.

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On the subject of reprehensible Albert Gore, then, consider electric vehicles—EVs—that he and his fellow political and mercantile climate alarmists insist will save the earth from a fate worse than death. Well, there’s a problem with EVs that it took a genius like Larry David to expose on last Sunday night’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Simply put, if somebody pulls the plug when your EV is being charged and you’re not watching it, you’re screwed. True, it’s possible to siphon fuel from a gasoline or diesel oil tank after you remove the filler cap—if it’s accessible. But siphoning fuel isn’t easy and requires equipment. (In the good old days when gas tanks had them, you could even unscrew the plug and simply drain the tank.) Pulling a charging cable, on the other hand, requires little more than motivation.

There are some rudimentary anti-disconnection devices available for EVs. But, when you think about it, what’s to prevent anyone for any reason from disconnecting the charging cable from a battery-powered vehicle? Or two or three or more at a time?

Say a disgruntled former (or present) town employee finds himself (or herself) in the Litchfield Town Hall parking lot when a couple of EVs are plugged in to the municipal charging stations. He (or she) casually saunters past the EVs and unobtrusively pulls the plugs. And of course he (or she) would be wearing a hoodie, so CCTV would be useless. And is it even unlawful to interfere with EV charging if no actual damage is done to the vehicle or charger?