Too hot

Hilzoy puts into flickering type what I've been thinking about a lot lately. It has been extremely hot and humid here in the Northeast for essentially the entire month of July. It's unpleasant. I theorize that the uptick in murders and mayhem these past weeks in New York (the metro section of the local papers has drifted my mind back to the lazy, hazy days of the late '70s/early '80s in New York) has something to do with the relentless heat. And, meanwhile, in Phoenix people are dying from the heat (which makes you wonder, isn't it extremely hot in Phoenix every summer?).

But as Hilzoy writes, we may not like the heat, but at least we have electricity.