The Review-Journal polls running this week could only have been written by the Review-Journal. Sample questions:

“Do you think global climate change is real, or is it a plot to get us to all wear nothing but loincloths and eat grass?”

“If you do think its real  — you pitiable, simple-minded bastard — do you think it’s worth it to try and fix it, or will the resulting government regulation bury us all in something far worse than nuclear winter?”

“And shouldn’t we all just say, ‘Fuck it,’ give tax cuts to the rich, suck the last drop of oil we can from Alaska and burn coal until the skies turn as black as our moribund souls?”

We’re paraphrasing, slightly.

But while we won’t go into the results of all this polling, we did want to note a little tiny piece of irony to be found in the poll results on Yucca Mountain. (And no, not the results were people say they pretty much don’t care about Yucca Mountain.)

It seems 58 percent of Nevadans polled oppose the Yucca Mountain project, where the government wants to bury the highly radioactive waste from nuclear plants. But in a different question, 58 percent of Nevadans said they had no problem whatsoever digging up more uranium to refine and use in nuclear power.

Thus creating more nuclear waste.

Thus creating a greater need for the disposal of said nuclear waste.

Thus creating more pressure to build and operate Yucca Mountain.

Which 58 percent of Nevadans say they’re against.

Does that make sense to anybody? We didn’t think so.