You always know you’re reading a blue-state paper when the metaphors start going to seed. From The New York Times, here’s Roger Cohen, a man who no doubt farms as well as he sails, attempting to dismiss the allegations of biofuel critics:

Most of this, to borrow a farm image, is hogwash and bilge.

Whose farm? Anyway, get the pigs out of the bass boat and you’ll be more convincing, Roger.