Check that: It takes two hurricanes of such lethal and undeniable force that even the Bush administration is forced to kneel in abject deference before the great altar of the professional "forecaster," a.k.a. the trained meteorologist, a.k.a. the atmospheric scientist, those smart nerdy button-down types most of whom work for the nonpartisan National Weather Service and who put out all those dire warnings about imminent storms and deadly heat waves and massive floods and who actually are, sorry Dubya, well-trained scientists with genuine university degrees and who can do all that complex math and research and other stuff Bush loathes the way Paris Hilton hates polysyllabic words.I'd like to buy a period or two, Pat...
And beyond writing the mother of all run-on sentences (and Miss Morford knows a thing or two about run-ons), if Morford bothered researching those who forecast hurricanes for a living, they would, to a man, tell Moffie that this is a natural cycle.
But Moffie isn't into what comes naturally anyway.