I’d like to think of something really intelligent to say about this profile in the New Yorker of a man named Van Jones, an African-American community organizer who is attempting to solve poverty and global warming simultaneously. Is this part of a broader attempt to knit together the truly diverse collection of hard left interests into a genuine common movement?

But really I just wanted to post this:

As a child, Jones was, by his own description, “bookish and bizarre.” When his parents gave him Luke Skywalker and Han Solo action figures, instead of arranging them to fight he would have them run for imaginary public offices.