As the Walrus said to the carpenter in “Through the Looking Glass,” Lewis Carroll’s classic, “The time has come, to talk of many things: Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.”

OK, we’ll dispense with the sealing wax and flying pigs. If not kings, how about presidents, spies, a boiling planet and jobs?

For starters, what does it mean for President Barack Obama’s crackdown on NSA spying that the spy agency apparently spied on Obama and his wife in 2004?

Does anyone know exactly what the NSA knows about the president? How would we know what they really know if they say they’re fessing up? Is a government agency that spies on its own to be trusted?

How might what the NSA knows affect what, if anything, the president is willing to do about NSA overreaching? Have we forgotten J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI dossiers?

After a trio of National Security Agency veterans recently disclosed the spy agency monitored the Obamas’ telephone conversations, major media gave a collective yawn. Really?

A supersecretive spy agency, already shown to have pried suspiciously – if not criminally – into millions of private lives, also took notes on the president’s private conversations? What harm could come from that? If this doesn’t send a chill up your spine, you may need to consult a neurologist.

Or, how about this for getting your blood boiling? Considering that trillions of dollars in economic harm and government greed are at stake in the battle to save us from global warming, and, considering the case for global warming rests entirely on allegedly unsafe increases in the Earth’s temperature, why haven’t we heard more about the discovery of a monumental calculating error in official U.S. government climate data?

After all, if temperatures aren’t soaring – and even by global warming alarmists’ own data they haven’t for 17 years – shouldn’t we rethink those economic and government policies?

Independent data analyst Steven Goddard recently released a study of the officially adjusted U.S. temperature records used by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other scientists who say they “prove” we are dangerously warming. (You didn’t even know they “adjust” the raw data, did you?)

“I spent the evening comparing graphs … and hit the NOAA mother lode,” Goddard reported. The real reason there is a disparity between raw thermometer readings from measuring stations and the government’s “adjusted” temperatures in official charts is because the climate scientists’ data adjustment, “turns a 90-year cooling trend into a warming trend,” according to Goddard.

“Globally, temperatures plummeted in 1999, but they didn’t in the U.S. graph,” he said.

If Goddard is correct, the alleged slight increase in temperatures used to whip up global warming fever isn’t real. Why isn’t there an uproar about exposing the global warming emperor without clothes?

Could it be the government and global warming profiteers’ self-interest might explain the silence? Would left-leaning media be so compliant to go along with such stonewalling? That’s a rhetorical question.

On another topic, a cartoon in the Wall Street Journal this week showed a fellow seated across the desk from a woman whose name plate says, “Personnel.” She says to him, “I must admit, I’ve never seen anyone list ‘cleaning out my desk’ as a job skill.”

Thanks to the wisdom of the age, we are awash in a workforce poorly suited to meet real-life challenges. In the job market every year, another ill-prepared, underequipped crop of college graduates seek jobs that match their degrees.

The Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University identified the 10 worst college majors based on unemployment rates after graduation and low initial earnings of full-time, full-year workers. Anthropology and archeology majors were the worst, with ages 22-26 experiencing 10.5 percent unemployment, far above the national average. When they manage to get a job, the median salary is $28,000. If you really want to be jobless, get a degree in film, video or photographic arts, which have 12.9 percent unemployment and median incomes of just $30,000.

This would be merely alarming, considering young people still make those poor choices voluntarily, which doesn’t speak highly of their economic common sense. It also may explain why 12.4 million college grads worked for hourly pay in 2012, 2.1 million more than in 2007. Last year, 284,000 grads worked at minimum wage; 37,000 of them had advanced degrees.

This probably bodes ill when we consider that cumulative welfare benefit packages are worth more than $49,175 in Hawaii and $43,099 in Washington, D.C. Could we be on the brink of archeology majors flooding the beaches of Hawaii?

As Carroll’s Walrus put it, “It seems a shame to play them such a trick.”