Calvinball in Native Americans' Backyard

Young Calvin lacked the patience for games with strict rules or scorekeeping. So, he changed this game’s rules every single day. Sounds like Federal energy policy.

Dear Fellow Expat:

"Calvinball" was a game in Calvin and Hobbes, a famous daily comic strip about a young boy and his “come-to-life” stuffed tiger.

Calvinball had one rule: The game can’t be played the same way twice.

Young Calvin lacked the patience for games with strict rules or scorekeeping. So, he changed this game’s rules every single day.

Sounds like the Federal government.

For years, indigenous Western Shoshone and Paiute people have fought to halt a major mining program on their ancestral lands on the Nevada-Oregon border.

Meanwhile, environmentalists (and sue-to-settle shops) have been trying to prevent the mines to save the endangered sage grouse.

Last week, the Ninth District Court – one of the most progressive U.S. courts - issued a Calvinball-style ruling so at odds with precedent that you’ll want to hit happy hour early…

The verdict: Hard no, Native Americans.

You see, “There’s lithium in them hills.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jen Granholm have i…