by David Sassoon -
Mar 6th, 2008 
In his immortal hit New York, New York, Frank Sinatra croons:
And if I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere
He doesn't sing about the other possibility, which is the oblivion of failure that New York can also confer -- as it did last week upon the Heartland Institute and its International Climate Deniers Conference.
They swaggered into town on the back of an expensive full-page ad in the New York Times and a favorable editorial preview provided for free by fellow-travellers at the Wall Street Journal -- and skipped town three days later exposed, ignored, ashamed and ridiculed.
They didn't make it here, and making it anywhere has now gotten that much harder.
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