Pick your stupidity (there's lots to go around!)

From CNN.com today:

Californians left in dark as heat wave continues

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Parts of Southern California sweltered in triple-digit temperatures on Monday as a heat wave stretched into the seventh day and contributed to power outages that left thousands with without air conditioning.

Frankly I'm not sure who to point at on this one. Seriously, who thought it was a brilliant idea to build a massive metropolis with tens of millions of people in a desert? Then who thought, after all the brownouts and power disasters there a few years ago, that the infrastructure was still okay? And who in their right mind complains when the inevitable then happens?

This ranks up there with the morons in Arizona who complained that their new McMansions out in farm country smelled too much due to the farms nearby were *gasp* doing farm-related activities!

Stay tuned for next week's exciting article about the rising number of cougar attacks in sprawling exburbs (or whatever they're calling suburbs of suburbs of suburbs these days.), or next summer's "sharks attack swimmers in Florida" story, right next to the "fish populations still in decline" story that doesn't think to make a connection.