Come Fly With Me

by: Juan Melli

Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 02:56:54 PM EDT

See the pattern? Me neither, but Herb Jackson found one. They're all warm and sunny places Bob Menendez and his staff took privately funded trips to. Especially if you can ignore the fact that half of those places aren't exactly warm and sunny, then you can see a pretty disturbing pattern forming.

I have no doubt that if current climate patterns persist, within a few decades each of those places could become prime sunbathing real estate, but for now, there's about a one week period per year when Chicago is that nice.

It's a clever title (Menendez warmed to trips taken to sunny destinations), but it has little to do with the rest of the article, which seems to disprove the thesis. That might explain why the trips to Boston, Chicago and Denver weren't mentioned until the end of the article.