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.
This is very strange...
I'm an average guy with an average life. I have a few more kids than most but for the most part I'm just an anonymous lumpenprole toiling away in obscurity both professionally and on this blog. To say my life follows a certain routine is like saying " The Hindenburg caught fire." That is to say, technically accurate but wildly understates the truth. In any event, I just received a call from The Wife. To wit: "Did you order something?" "No, why?" "There's something here for you." "Uh, box, bag, envelope, singing telegram?" "It's a box" "Who's is from?" "It's from [Name redacted pending confession or further investigation]" "Who?" "(repeats name)" "No idea. Never heard of him." A quick google search later I find that the sender's return address is in the wilds of northern Pennsylvania. A place I have never visited. "Open it." "W...
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