I was just catching up on Richard Cohen’s column yesterday and I see an ad in the corner of the page. It shows a guy putting on deodorant next to the teaser headline: “What’s Better for the Planet: Deodorant or Antiperspirant?” Fair enough question I guess, though not exactly riveting either. But the picture of dude using some roll-on deodorant seems to show that he’s body-hair free, including under his arms. Is that in now? Really?
In the last thread, I asked, is this scene really in the beginning of Planet of the Apes? I’ve seen the movie twenty times, and at least once on VHS from the beginning, and have no recollection of this scene…
I hope Israel is the last country left on the face of the planet willing to respond with “go to hell”. I don’t know anymore. God knows we have hung them out on a limb. The Turk foreign minister is…
Here are monkeys riding around on sheepdogs herding goats: Scary, huh? As monkeys learn how to do more and more things, they approach a world where they don’t need us anymore and take over. Thus the Planet of the Apes. Of course, the same thing is happening with robots which leads to a Terminator future. So really, the future awaiting all of us is Planet of the Apes versus Terminator
Prince Charles thinks Islam is better than the rest of us in taking care of the planet.
There’s an interesting article by Art Horn over at Pajamas Media (hat tip Instapundit) concerning a confluence of factors that may lead to a short-term global cooling of the planet….
Stephen Hawking doesn’t want us contacting space aliens because he thinks they could destroy us and just plunder our planet for its resources. He apparently came to this conclusion after lots of his super-smart physics thinking — or maybe after watching the movie Independence Day . Don’t worry, though; I have the solution. We just make sure to send broadcasts of the original Star Trek episodes into space. Then aliens finding out about our civilization will see what happens to hostile space aliens: They get punched in the face by Captain Kirk. Hostile aliens will then avoid us not wanting to get punched in their…
With apologies to well-known Eliot-hater Derb — and with apologies to the public general for taking note of Earth Day — an observation from my favorite poet and third- or fourth-favorite conservative thinker: A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God . . . . It would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live on this planet. Question: Is there a more conservative phrase in English than “permanent conditions”?
USA Today featured a special article to help celebrate Earth Day by Mark Thoreau, an indirect descendant of author Henry David Thoreau. In “ Thoreau Descendant Reflects on Walden Pond, Earth Day, ” Thoreau, however, took the opportunity to call for more government involvement on environmental issues and even praised the Sierra Club, the left-wing environmental group. Thoreau, an Englishman, explained how he has visited the scenic Walden Pond, the site where Henry David Thoreau lived for a little over two years, and was pleased with the condition of it. The site is now considered a Massachusetts state landmark and receives many visitors. While reflecting on his famous ancestor is certainly fitting, Thoreau, couldn’t resist cheerleading …
Oxford University’s Tim Palmer is a professor of climate physics. In an interview for an article in Sunday’s Guardian, “Feel free to doubt climate change: just don’t deny it”, he touched on climate skepticism, “denialism”, and a topic not often broached by the Climate Change community: Uncertainty . You may be confident that your house will not burn down this year, but you would be considered a fool by many people if you failed to take out insurance. And so it is with climate change. The detailed nature of global warming’s impact on the planet is not yet agreed by scientists. It could be dreadful; it could be limited. …