Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
More weekend wisdom from my Hello Kitty of Blogging account:
Thought for the day:
If an alien from another planet, fully capable of understanding our language, competent in logic and common sense but entirely unfamiliar with our modern culture, were forced to live with us for about a week or so…I’m sure he’d come to the conclusion that this word we use, “environment,” has something to do with diminished expectations and/or lowered standards.
Companies who talk about protecting the environment, charge a goddamn fortune and their products & services don’t do anything.
Politicians who talk about the environment, just raise our taxes and make everything more expensive.
Scientists who talk about the environment, don’t even practice science.
And the everyday-everywhere-everyman who talks about the environment, is just a smug foppish snot who likes to feel superior to everybody else, doesn’t do shit, knows even less.
Yes, the pattern is becoming clearer by the year…in fact, by the week. You hear the word “environment” and the next thing you see is going to be someone wriggling out of being held to any standard. For anything.
To which I subsequently added, to bolster the case:
If a car is good for the environment, it won’t take you where you want to or need to go (this is the primary function of the thing we call a “car”). If you drive it and get in any kind of accident at all, you’ll be deader than Princess Di before you can say “Princess of Wales.”
See? Environmentally friendly. Doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do…and you’re expected to know this, because of the “E” word. It’s just expected now.
If a shampoo is good for the environment, you may as well wash your hair with the wastewater from your dishwasher.
If a baby’s diaper is good for the environment, you may as well shove cotton balls up the baby’s ass.
If a light bulb is good for the environment, it won’t light the room.
If you stay in the hotel and the hotel is trying to protect the environment, it means the maid doesn’t do anything.
And…toilets that are good for the environment. Let’s not even inspect that in any kind of sordid detail.
If beer is good for the environment, it won’t get you drunk.
If drain cleaner is good for the environment, it won’t clear the clog in your drain.
If paint thinner is good for the environment it won’t thin the paint.
If you have friends & family who invite you to an environmentally-conscientious Thanksgiving dinner, there’s no turkey involved.
If swimming pool shock treatment is good for the environment, you’re wasting your time using it.
An environmentally considerate vacuum cleaner — it won’t even start to clean your carpet. And forget about sucking up that bowling ball.
Switched out my girlfriend’s closet light bulb with a good old-fashioned hundred-watter. She can tell the difference between her black clothes and her dark blue clothes now. She likes that. Yep…a little bit more damage to Gaea because of our high expectations of being able to get dressed in the morning, competently. We’re selfish that way.
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And if my back-stock of incandescent light bulbs continue to give off more heat than light (I know-huh?), then I’m promoting the heating my own (New Hampshire paid-for) house with the same “renewable” energy proposed for charging up electric cars, instead of evil #2oil, or CO2 sequestering trees…ESPECIALLY during the long nights of winter…right?
- CaptDMO | 05/06/2012 @ 11:14