GREEN POLICIES BEAR THEIR USUAL FRUIT: WSJ: Lights Out in La-La Land.

Meet modern life in Los Angeles. On Sunday night the Hollywood Bowl had to cancel a concert because of a city power outage. On Saturday a brief blackout disrupted a University of Southern California football game. Why aren’t La La Land’s progressive leaders upset? Maybe because they’re partly responsible.

Heat waves with triple-digit temperatures are unpleasant, though not unusual during the summer in the South and West. Yet Los Angeles’s electric power system suffered widespread failures this weekend as temperatures surged, causing more than 70,000 utility customers in the city and surrounding neighborhoods to lose power, including the Los Angeles Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl.

Tens of thousands of Californians in other parts of the state also lost power, but L.A.’s grid meltdown was the worst. Its municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), faulted overloaded cables and overheated equipment. Customers were told they might not get power back for more than 24 hours. Better crash at a friend’s place—and hope it doesn’t lose power.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass blamed the outages on “extreme heat.” But the electric systems in Arizona, Texas and Nevada withstand sizzling temperatures without buckling. Why can’t L.A.? Perhaps because the municipal utility has prioritized the city’s climate goals over hardening its system and replacing aging equipment.

At my university, they were threatening to turn up thermostats to reduce electrical demand because of “unprecedented heat.” Spoiler: 90-95 in August in Knoxville isn’t unprecedented, it’s dead-normal and always has been, with no need for “climate change.”

Flashback: Thank the green-energy cult for major blackouts this summer.

Also: Greens want electric cars — but not the things required to run them.

You know the difference between California and the Titanic? The lights were still on when the Titanic went under.

You know what socialists used before candles? Electricity!