Old men steal milkshakes
They drink it up
•Halifax’s lost last night. Do you know who I mean? Does it not seem as if Halifax’s Page has changed her name from Ellen to Halifax’s, since I haven’t ever seen it written without that qualifier? •Dear God:
Thanks for not making me North Korean
(via The FAIL Blog) •Skepticism toward global warming is reprehensible because of the attitude behind it. This skepticism is not directed toward the understandably biased oil companies, nor is it directed toward politicians and religious figures, but rather, it doubts whether or not we should care about our environment. It’s as if it’s a feminine weakness to want clean land, clean water, and clean air. It’s asking too much that we live without polluting or without stressing the biosphere.
To live cleanly in this regard, to live in such a way that is sustainable, is to be called to a more sophisticated life. But again, this asking too much, for it is easier to continue to unwrap the cellophane from the packet of cigarettes and drop it to the ground. Through this `fuck-it` action you prove yourself to be a rebel and cool, and not some airy-fairy girly-hippy environmentalist.
Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
•If I die of cancer I don’t want it said that I lost ‘a courageous battle’. Life isn’t a war. Shit happens and we all die of something. Tonight on the news it was reported that someone had died of a brain tumor, and it has become the formulaic phrase, to say ‘he lost his courageous battle with cancer’. The rule for ESL students is: ‘courageous battle with cancer’.Again, life is not a war.With this is mind, consider annual growth rates in economics. Is is fair to say that the only thing in nature that grows as much as the economy is supposed to is cancer? Then, will we ever reach a point when it is said, ‘the nation lost its courageous battle with the economy’s growth rate today’.
