Posted on 12/08/2006 1:17:45 PM PST by SmithL
Conversely, they say that when gas prices jump above three bucks a gallon and hover there for a while and everyone is slapped upside the head once again with the painful and obvious reminder that oh yeah we are in the midst of a brutal and losing war over waning petroleum deposits and we are heating up the planet like maniac monkeys and we are really really not paying close enough attention to what all those hurricanes and eroded glaciers and crying trees are trying to tell us, well, that's when our conscience finally kicks in and more people consider buying a Prius and maybe an organic salad, just in case.
It's just incredibly easy, in this painful, tragicomic age of Bush, to take the pessimist's view and think we are, as evidenced by the rather dimwitted formula above, simple as rocks. Stupid, even. Ignorant, reactionary, shortsighted as a Republican rubbing himself with a wad of tobacco lobbyist cash. Is it not obvious?
In other words, it's incredibly easy to believe, given the current planetary circumstances, that we really just don't give much of a damn, that simple decision-making equations like the above prove that we are a rather thoughtless species, reacting only to the most primitive of market forces while remaining hell-bent on serving our most immediate needs and screw the planet and screw the long view and screw what kind of burned-up oil-depleted storm-ridden water-deprived world your kids will be facing in a mere 25 years, just save me a few bucks on a tank of Saudi gas and let's call...
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`nuf said
Yes, Mark. Some of you are.
Not My Ma Richards (D-Tx) was a lobbyist for Big Tobacco after she served one famous term as Texas governor. Don't think she even gave a dime to Republicans.
I am sorry the author feels that way.
I will be taking all that into consideration as I drive my SUV to the racetrack this weekend and watch them waste gallon after gallon of gas and then go home and cook giant steaks on the grill...
...yum.
I take it we won't be seeing this idiot at any NASCAR races.
No - the stupid ones are just the ones who won't even defend their own civilization. The truly evil ones are those who actively seek to destroy it - that's the Left in this country in particular and the Left everywhere in general. Ruin is their dwelling place and death's their destination.
Morford - the voice of experience.
Morford gets hit on the chin with his knees just as much as...um...anything.
Well, I know that half of them are below average ...
Considering the results of last month's election, I guess some people are stupid.
Maybe the Drag races, though.
Yeah, uh, like someone totally misspelled morphed!
Can you imagine what it would be like to be that demented?
I know I can't.
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