Joseph Somsel broke the story of California's plan to eventually control the temperature set on thermostats of state residents on American Thinker a week ago. Since then, it has percolated through the blogosphere, talk radio, and now into the mainstream media, demonstrating yet again the way many issues appear first on the internet.Today's New York Times picks up  the story, and even credits us with breaking the story. Reporter Felicity Barranger interviewed Joseph yesterday and wrote this about our role:The broader stir on the Internet began when Joseph Somsel, a San Jose-based contributor to the publication American Thinker, wrote an article a week ago on the programmable communicating thermostat, or P.C.T.Mr. Somsel went after the proposal with arguments that were by turns populist ("Come the next heat wave, the elites might be comfortably lolling in La Jolla's ocean breezes" while "the Central Valley's poor peons are baking in Bakersfield"),...(Read Full Post)