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...
1. Leonardo DiCaprio gets it in his head that the polar bears are endangered (hat tip: Dirty Harry), even though no adequate census exists on which to base a worldwide population figure for polar bears.
2. Leonardo mails out paper packages to the public to get some support behind his Polar Bear S.O.S. campaign. The package includes:
a one-page letter from DiCaprio; two pages from Frances Beinecke, president of the NRDC; a flyer for a free Save the Polar Bear! bag; a donation form and petition to have the animals listed as an endangered species; and a return envelope.
3. There’s more…
The star has been criticised for the waste of paper and the hypocrisy of the situation – because he helped to spearhead the national Do Not Mail Registry campaign to ban junk mail earlier this year.
4. A citizens’ watchdog group blows the whistle on DiCaprio by criss-crossing the country in a fleet of SUVs to personally tell everybody what a big hypocrite he is for wasting all that paper.
No, #4 didn’t really happen. I made up #4. But it makes me happy to think about it.
5. Another watchdog group tattles on the first watchdog group, by writing notes about all the gasoline they wasted in their SUVs, sealing the notes up into plastic soda bottles, and throwing ’em by the millions into the Pacific Ocean.
It’s kind of like going into the bathroom with a shaving mirror, holding it in front of the medicine cabinet, and looking into infinity. So the point is, I don’t think you can blame DiCaprio for this. It’s built into the nature of the environmental movement. It’s more about getting attention, smacking the knuckles of other people, tattling, and generally bringing a stop to things — than about actually fixing anything.
So now it’s in an infinite loop. Someone does something, someone else calls shenanigans because by doing something, they’re “polluting” or “emitting greenhouse gases.” But in order to “get the word out” they have to do something, which means someone else is going to talk smack about them. Back and forth it goes.
I wonder if it’ll rip a hole in the space time continuum.
If so, that couldn’t possibly be good for the environment.
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