Comments on: The War on Terra

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:21:14 +0000

Sheesh. Sorry about the double post.

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:43:36 +0000

“War on Terra” indeed. That always did strike me as a Freudian slip.

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:43:32 +0000

“War on Terra” indeed. That always did strike me as a Freudian slip.

By: Open Source Politics

Open Source Politics — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:31:57 +0000

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I am running out of good opening lines… does anybody have any good ideas for opening lines for this column? The Mahablog, Suburban Guerrilla, and The Right Christians respond to an Atrios post regarding the Religious Right. Guy Andrew Hall…

By: Leah A

Leah A — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:37:04 +0000

Not my books, Peanut, please don’t make me feel guilty about those. It’s just not the same reading a book online. Newspapers and magazines, fine. I do keep my books forever; my more aged paperbacks are a smudgy yellow, and quite disgusting, but still I do not replace them, even if i have to wear surgical gloves to read them.

Re Chief Seattle, though it is quite true that the speech in question was hatched and put into the Chief’s mouth in the seventies, Chief Seattle was one in a long line of great Native American orators, like the great Chief Joseph of “I will fight no more forever” fame. And Chief Seattle did make a public address with an ecological theme; it is preserved only in the notes of a contemporary reporter, and it was that report that gave rise to the manufactured speech. However, Chief Seattle’s own speech as jotted down at the time strikes the same notes as the invented one, and is deeply moving.

Wonderful post, peanut. I didn’t realize you were blogging here…great work, George Clinton for VP, that’s sending me to bed with a huge smile on my face.

By: Peanut

Peanut — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:45:45 +0000

No snark taken. I lounge corrected.

By: Hamilton Lovecraft

Hamilton Lovecraft — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:41:18 +0000

Much as I hate to snark at anyone who cares about the environment, every time I see that Chief Seattle speech quoted, I twitch. Chief Seattle never spoke any such words; they were written for a film in 1971.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/seattle.htm

By: Open Source Politics

Open Source Politics — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:40:55 +0000

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I am running out of good opening lines… does anybody have any good ideas for opening lines for this column? The Mahablog, http://www.suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_suburbanguerrilla_archive.html#108282569116126073“>Suburban Guerrilla, and …

By: Open Source Politics

Open Source Politics — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:39:28 +0000

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By: Dark_Avenger

Dark_Avenger — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:07:39 +0000

I always wanted to get some sort of hand-cranked or bicycle-run chipper so that when the occasional limb comes off the mullberry, it can be put to good use in my little ‘byte’ of land.

Bryan, I’ve lived on the Gulf Coast, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say that these are nouveau riche folks, and it doesn’t surprise me. Conspicuous consumption and all that Veblen stuff.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:34:20 +0000

I’ll just smoke some extra today.

By: Modulator

Modulator — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:14:45 +0000

Earth Day

Sadly, No! has a fine Earth Day post up. It includes a number of good suggestions…even one about oval office cleaning….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:29:47 +0000

Ummm, you can save energy and reduce pollution by using a microwave for certain operations, especially things that require hot water.

They do, however, screw up the texture of what you cook, making a lot of foods “rubbery” and no one should consider using them for popcorn.

On the Gulf Coast it never ceases to amaze the people who rake leaves and put them out for disposal and then go to a garden store to buy “soil enhancement” products when they could easily create their own with a compost pile.

By: White Blood Cell

White Blood Cell — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:49:30 +0000

http://www.wintersoldier.com

By: Anna in Cairo

Anna in Cairo — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:49:07 +0000

Beautiful. Happy Earth Day.