Fracking, Poverty and the New Liberal Gentry: The energy bonanza has bypassed New York, where socialites and celebrities have come out in force to stop it.

The Wall Street Journal on the gentry liberals:

Great Society liberalism had, for all its faults, an ideal of inclusiveness. The environmental anti-industrial liberalism is implicitly organized around exclusion. Environmentalism, with its powerful not-in-my-backyard and not-in-your-backyard currents in upstate New York, has become an ideological cover for the pursuit of self-interest. New York's liberals are fighting to preserve the status quo, poverty and all.

A great one from Fred Siegal.