Performative and Perfunctory “Preparedness”

The PUC’s Winter Preparedness Work Session was more an exercise in message discipline than in problem solving.

The PUC held a workshop Friday, and while I've never watched a Politburo meeting, they likely have a similar feel. 

Electric companies lined up and, one after the other, said they're "ready for winter." When one company representative failed to say the scripted magic words, he was reminded by the PUC Chair of his omission, to which he replied, "We are pr…