OBSTRUCTING INJUSTICE: Ann Althouse On Max Boot. “Anyway, there’s more science detail at that Wikipedia article, and when I get back to Boot, I see he knows his ‘adage’ about frogs is wrong. . . Then why start a column with that bullshit? . . . But in real life, the frog does jump out when it gets too hot. The slow heating does not interfere with that capacity. Using the real-life analogy, we’re not getting terribly upset yet because we don’t think it’s too hot yet, and we will be able to jump when we decide that it is. That last sentence forgets the science and screams at us to jump now because otherwise we’ll be boiled alive. But that’s alarmism. Frogs don’t live like that, so why should we?”