Climate Control

When it comes to things like changing over from oil to other sources of energy and making a genuine effort to deal with global climate meltdown, Obama's cabinet appointments look pretty good to me.

Joining the group will be Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics whom Mr. Obama designated to lead the Energy Department.

Imagine that, putting a scientist in charge! Maybe now we'll have an Energy Department that actually does something, other than just getting paid and taking up space.

One things is for sure: Even as Obama made these appointments he was "Acknowledging that a succession of presidents and Congresses had failed to make much progress on the issues." Still, some of us anyway can feel a little better about these critical issues, because we're at least anticipating a government that actually addresses problems that truly exist in the real world, rather than one that's living in some greed-driven fantasy.

And that, my friends, is change you can believe in.