Seeing red over 'green scare' Jonah Goldbberg talks about alarmism in the Environmental movement. Hype, hysteria and fear mongering are not theirs alone but their entire movement is predicated on it. I'm old enough to remember the "Next Ice Age" hysteria gripping the country. We were warned of doom and gloom and how we'd all die off b/c we couldn't grow anything in the soon to be frozen hinterlands of middle America. If Green Hysteria follows other trends we'll be hearing about the next ice age sometime soon. Oddly that would lead to the Greenies clamoring for an increase in greenhouse gases to prevent us from freezing to death. Maybe not. I've always suspected that this is the heart and soul of the environmental movement.
Quarantine 2008 has ended
Fair warning: possibly graphic post and not for the squeamish. So it all started Friday night. Wife and I had a long day (as usual) and had finally finished with dishes, laundry and the rest of the normal daily grind. The baby had been fussy most of the day and had spit up here and there. Mostly we thought it had been switching from formula to milk which can sometimes cause this type of thing. By the time kid #4 rolls around you tend to let these things slide. If this were #1 we'd have called in a medivac at the first sign of vomiting in a 1 year old. He finally calmed down and we got him off to sleep. We watched a bit of The Wire and retired (very) late. About 10 minutes later #2 wakes up crying complaining of a stomach ache. I ask if he has to go to the bathroom and he says no, it's not that. His stomach really hurts. OK, into my bed and I'll get the heating pad for a bit. We get him settled and he calms down. Knowing that he tends towards the dramatic, I s...
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