EDITORIAL: The hippie holiday--Humanity haters bemoan life on Earth Day

The Washington Times ^ | April 20, 2011 | Editorial

[LeavingNewYork]

The Hog-Farm....I believe the hippie-in-charge was Wavy Gravy.

[screaminsunshine]

You got it. That is where we are going.

[sergeantdave]

Good post. I hang around Yahoo Answers and try to insert a bit of common sense into the brainwashed public school kids who post warming nonsense. I was pleasantly surprised by home-schoolers who also post there. You parents who are home schooling should be proud. Good on you.

[Red Boots]

There is a book called “Trees” written years ago. I don’t even know if you can get a copy. It describes the early settlers and the problems they had living in so called pristine locations. The trees without enough sun caused deep depression among other problems.

I read that book- I believe it is part of a trilogy by Conrad Richter: the trees, the forest, the fields ?

Anyway, the forest canopy, which kept out all direct sunlight, did cause people to go crazy.

And the work described in clearing a simple field is almost unbelievable. They were very strong people, those people who made the fields of America. They'd sure not think much of us today, I'm afraid.

[ScreamingFist]

Last year when I was shopping a young woman asked me if I knew what day the 4th of July was celebrated on.

A women in a parking lot outside the Super Walmart was upset and crying. I asked here if I could help. She told me she could not get into her car, the doors would not unlock. I took her key, inserted it into the driver door, opened the door and told her to change the batteries in her remote. True story.

[freekitty]

You are right. They were strong; unlike the little green wimps of today.

[tbw2]

Another related book is “Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back” by Eleanor Agnew - a woman who went with her family to the land, how it collapsed, and coming back to the real world, along with interviews of others in the same situation

[svcw]

So you and I have met the two stupidest people ever. I laughed at the girl when she asked me, but alas she was serious.
Wow, just wow.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I’m guessing the internet gets the Thursday print edition the night before.

[Pining_4_TX]

Ping!

[Elsie]

Doesn’t Good Friday usually fall on a Friday?

Usually; but remember: Friday the 13^th came on Wednesday this month.

[Elsie]

indeed!

[Elsie]

Do they have a Fourth of July in England?

[Elsie]

TODAY is now the tomorrow you replied about.

[IronJack]

LOL! Yeah, I usually back up a dumptruck full of methyl benzene and pump it into the local swamp. Then, if I'm lucky, it catches fire and I roast snail darters and spotted owls over the flames.

Thanks for enlightening me on the difference between sound resistance and extremism. I wasn't exaggerating or anything ...

[WOBBLY BOB]

Predictions from Earth Day 1970
Reason.com ^ | May 2000 | Ronald Bailey

Posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 3:24:30 PM by thought

oldie but a goodie...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401662/posts

[Yossarian]

IMHO, your best work.