American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Green Update

Just a quick little post about my favorite topic: Green. Well, kind of, at least everything in this post can be tied together under the Green heading.
First up, a website for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was hacked and loaded up with spammer links to sell Viagra, Xanax and the like.
It looks like only [...]

Hate to Say: “I Told You So, But…”

I know you all thought my ranting about the Green Movement (1, 2, 3 to name a few) and lack of sincerity behind it was just that, ranting. But look around now. After all the fuss that was made back in May and June about how important it is in this day and age to [...]

Non-Electric Catalog

I don’t even know exactly how to tag this one- Is it “Green?” Maybe “Nostalgia?” Do we have an “Irony” tag?
I present to you Lehman’s Catalog, for all your non-electric device needs. Lehman’s was “Founded by Jay Lehman in 1955 to serve the local Amish and others without electricity, Lehman’s ships old-fashioned, high-quality merchandise [...]

The BEST CFL and a new type of fan

Over at Simply Green, Danny Seo, the author of Simply Green Parties and Simply Green Giving, has endorsed one Compact Florescent Lightbulb above any other. For critics who claim that CFL’s are too harsh and don’t adequately mimic standard incandescent bulbs Seo recommends the GE Energy Smart Dimmable CFL bulb.
Also on the green front- TreeHugger [...]

Settling Some Myths

Okay, so since I have posted “Oh By The Way” I have received a number of comments about compact fluorescent lights (CFL) ranging from drying out your eyes, to containing mercury, to not really being more energy efficient then incandescent bulbs because they use so much more power in their start up. Well, I am [...]

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