OH LAWD IS DAT SUM HYPOCRISY?

As a military brat and scuffling member of the middle class, nothing gets me pissed off like some insanely rich SOB telling me I need to lower my standard of living. Especially when the preachy bastard in question isn't walking it the way he talks it. Don't even start with that "carbon offset" bullshit, either. I already made it clear what I think of that nonsense, and Iowahawk drives the point home with more humor - and some bumperstickers! Just in case you STILL haven't gotten the message that carbon offsets are just another shuck and jive from the folks who brought you Global Cooling, The Population Bomb, The Limits to Growth, and other excuses for transnational progressive Naziism, we'll let the economists walk you through a short discussion (with simple charts) of why buying carbon offsets can (and probably will) actually make things worse by encouraging more coal-fired power plants to run more often. So as I argued in my previous post about the carbon offset silliness, there's really not a whole hell of a lot of difference between the modern indulgences sold by the Church of Gaia and what the Catholic Church was doing in the late Middle Ages, except that we at least got some cool art and spiffy buildings out of the latter. Hell, you might as well buy into IowaHawk's EcoPals Network; at least you can be sure the money is going to the worthy cause of keeping da Hawk liquored up and working on the Coupe of Justice.

I have to say that the odd couple of Eric Scheie and Ann Coulter have both noticed that the Greens haven't made the obvious move if they're really serious about this whole global warming thing, not even by way of leading by example. Perhaps that's because (as the Odd Couple also note) they don't have the chance of a snowball in hell - or a wind farm off Martha's Vineyard, LOL - of convincing most Americans to put down their Whoppers and Big Macs to save the planet.

And on that note, I'm off to lunch. Screw you, Algore. Up yours, "Mother" Gaia. It's all meat except for the starchy stuff.

OH LAWD IS DAT SUM HYPOCRISY?

As a military brat and scuffling member of the middle class, nothing gets me pissed off like some insanely rich SOB telling me I need to lower my standard of living. Especially when the preachy bastard in question isn't walking it the way he talks it. Don't even start with that "carbon offset" bullshit, either. I already made it clear what I think of that nonsense, and Iowahawk drives the point home with more humor - and some bumperstickers! Just in case you STILL haven't gotten the message that carbon offsets are just another shuck and jive from the folks who brought you Global Cooling, The Population Bomb, The Limits to Growth, and other excuses for transnational progressive Naziism, we'll let the economists walk you through a short discussion (with simple charts) of why buying carbon offsets can (and probably will) actually make things worse by encouraging more coal-fired power plants to run more often. So as I argued in my previous post about the carbon offset silliness, there's really not a whole hell of a lot of difference between the modern indulgences sold by the Church of Gaia and what the Catholic Church was doing in the late Middle Ages, except that we at least got some cool art and spiffy buildings out of the latter. Hell, you might as well buy into IowaHawk's EcoPals Network; at least you can be sure the money is going to the worthy cause of keeping da Hawk liquored up and working on the Coupe of Justice.

I have to say that the odd couple of Eric Scheie and Ann Coulter have both noticed that the Greens haven't made the obvious move if they're really serious about this whole global warming thing, not even by way of leading by example. Perhaps that's because (as the Odd Couple also note) they don't have the chance of a snowball in hell - or a wind farm off Martha's Vineyard, LOL - of convincing most Americans to put down their Whoppers and Big Macs to save the planet.

And on that note, I'm off to lunch. Screw you, Algore. Up yours, "Mother" Gaia. It's all meat except for the starchy stuff.

Because for some of us this time of year really sucks

Interesting article about a portable gizmo called the LiteBook which evidently is effective in treating Seasonal Affective Disorder. (Instapundit)

Also, Test Tube Aliens declared "gadget of the week". I misread the blurb at Instapundit and thought it said "Vacuum Tube Aliens", which would have been even cooler.

Because for some of us this time of year really sucks

Interesting article about a portable gizmo called the LiteBook which evidently is effective in treating Seasonal Affective Disorder. (Instapundit)

Also, Test Tube Aliens declared "gadget of the week". I misread the blurb at Instapundit and thought it said "Vacuum Tube Aliens", which would have been even cooler.

This man is an idiot.

Not content with being a fan of a game that only dorks too clumsy/stupid to field ground balls play, this dipstick goes on to laud people who set their stadium on fire and have pitched battles with other teams' fans, the police, innocent bystanders, etc.

There's a reason that no article for baseball hooliganism exists in Wikipedia. Can you guess what it is?

(Capitol Punishment)

This man is an idiot.

Not content with being a fan of a game that only dorks too clumsy/stupid to field ground balls play, this dipstick goes on to laud people who set their stadium on fire and have pitched battles with other teams' fans, the police, innocent bystanders, etc.

There's a reason that no article for baseball hooliganism exists in Wikipedia. Can you guess what it is?

(Capitol Punishment)

I thought this was Minnesota.

Management is sending us home on account of the impending blizzard as of 2 PM.
More time to kill and/or be killed on EVE, yay.

UPDATE: Wow, that was entertaining. The driver of the 535 bus I was on took the ramp off 35W at 66th a little too fast and wound up sliding halfway into the intersection at the bottom. Weehu. Nobody hurt, thank God, but it was real interesting for a couple minutes there. Visibility is shit right now, measured in yards instead of miles, because there's a lot of snow coming down and it's coming down fast. Me, I'm not going anywhere until tomorrow morning, assuming of course that we're open tomorrow.

I thought this was Minnesota.

Management is sending us home on account of the impending blizzard as of 2 PM.
More time to kill and/or be killed on EVE, yay.

UPDATE: Wow, that was entertaining. The driver of the 535 bus I was on took the ramp off 35W at 66th a little too fast and wound up sliding halfway into the intersection at the bottom. Weehu. Nobody hurt, thank God, but it was real interesting for a couple minutes there. Visibility is shit right now, measured in yards instead of miles, because there's a lot of snow coming down and it's coming down fast. Me, I'm not going anywhere until tomorrow morning, assuming of course that we're open tomorrow.