By John Brennan Mountain View Journal Editor One of the darker elements of human nature is the one that makes us snicker to ourselves when someone high and mighty gets a little comeuppance. So it shouldn't come as any surprise to Californians that the rest of us are not exactly gushing sympathy at the fact that the Golden State is about out of juice. Not at the juice bars, of course.
All reports say that kind of juice is still flowing freely.
The problem is electricity, the juice that lights the glitzy glamour spots, from Hollywood to San Francisco. California doesn't have enough, and has been teetering on the verge of blackouts for several weeks. If this crisis were going on in New Mexico, we'd expect the concern and consideration of a sympathetic nation. We'd probably all be scrambling to help the victims, too, in any way we could. But instead most Western states now are resisting the call to ship their excess electric power to California.