In These Times

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• • 19 Feb 06
  • 9:50 pm

  Thomas Friedman recently that touched upon the issue of disposable chopsticks: "... China itself uses 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks a year, or 1.66 million cubic meters of timber, or 25 million full-grown trees." Not corporate waste in this case, but people throwing little things away every day. It starts and ends with the individual. The real enemy of progress here is the guy who was brought up to embrace the disposable world. I like WTH's idea about making producers responsible for their products after they break down. Perhaps we should also be able to send back empty cartons and …

  Posted to Talking Trash

• • 19 Jan 06
  • 9:49 pm

  You don't know if it is coming from China? Well the content of your local land fill probably came from China, but you can, no doubt, look a lot closer to home for the cause of your shortness of breath. Most people don't have to look much further than their garage. The blind opposition to effective and comprehensive mass transit systems in most areas boggles the mind. Your city may have an excellent system, but most communities have to fight tooth and nail for a mediocre one. Everything is simply built around the essential notion of a car (and a big …

  Posted to When Red Goes Green

• • 01 Jan 06
  • 6:43 pm

  Tina is fascinating. She'll support the US in any random war apparently - sort of like wanting your daddy to escape the police regardless of what he has done. There is a difference beween wanting America to win that war and wanting America to be great. The unwillingness to recognize this is a prominent difference between the so-called 'dims' and the likes of tina1 (apparently a tad dimmer)

  Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles

• • 02 Jan 06
  • 12:06 am

  Sorry Wiley. Her point about liberals wanting America to lose the war sort of typified the disengaged brain attitude we have to endure from the right. That broken record goes like this: "Well, now that we are in Iraq, do you want us to lose?" The follow-up goes like this: "You liberals have no ideas." Lather, rinse, repeat...

  Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles

• • 02 Jan 06
  • 3:20 am

  rightwingnews.com huh? I'll bet that site is a real time-saver. "Tell em what they already know. We are good. they are bad." Tina, wake up. Iraq is essentially a random war. It was the perfect, half-trillion dollar war Osama wanted for Christmas. If you are backing your administration's completely foolhardy adventure into a country that did not attack us and p o s e d u s n o t h r e a t, well, then I can't think of an American war you wouldn't support. How many innocent Iraqis did 9-11 give us the license to kill? Considering, that …

  Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles