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Apparently Penelope Cruz is jumping on the Green bandwagon as the lead story on Yahoo “What are some inexpensive tips to turn my house green?” This is just another of the bullshit Green articles I will not link to.
First off, why does Penelope Cruz need “inexpensive” tips? Did she gamble all of her money away [...]

It’s Not Easy Being Green

So I was going to write about the new trendiness of being Green, but instead I will take a cue from the NY Times and just mention how pricey it can be. The NY Times had a piece this past weekend on  the high cost of living Green, and how by slapping th words “organic” [...]

Global Warming Gestapo

Speech codes are rare in the industrialized, Western democracies, but curiously there is a strong taboo against suggesting anything in opposition to the view that man-made carbon emissions drive global warming. Intimidation, isolation, ad homonym attacks, and now lawsuits are all used to stifle opposing views.
A recent article by Alex Beam titled “MIT’s inconvenient scientist,” [...]

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