I’m an amateur trash hound. I’ve found some really great stuff in my apartment building’s trash room. I’d LOVE to gets my hands on the abandoned computer equipment (and probably lots of other cool junk, too).
Penn State students leave behind 66 tons of bargains
By Tom Gibb
“UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Dumpster is supposed to be a colossal wastebasket. And a wastebasket is supposed to be for, well, waste.”
Ed Rendell seemingly did a terrific job as mayor of Philadelphia. Aside from his pro-choice stance on abortion, I thought he could do a good job as governor of Pennsylvania. Perhaps I was wrong. He’s really screwing the pooch on this public transportation cutback. He’s being very “un-Democrat”.
Ah…You know how if you want to destroy someone's credibility, you inflate certain things they say and create a strawman? Well, some people kindly do that for you, and advocate such crackbrained things you just have to tell the truth and people who aren't complete knobs will be appropriately disgusted/angered/contemptuous.
Well, ladies and gentleman, Peter Singer of Princeton is one of those people, and this time our lionized Princeton ethicist claims that SUV drivers are morally equivalent to the 9/11 terrorists. This link was courtesy of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web page, which has had some real gems before.
Arctic pollution causing polar bears to change sex
By Charles Arthur
Polar bears, Arctic foxes and Inuit peoples are under threat from man-made toxins such as polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs) that build up in the food chain, new research reveals.
Environmental and animal groups are calling for a global ban on the production of the chemicals to safeguard the future health of those groups. Some scientists believe the PCBs are leading to “gender-bender” polar bears in Norway and Greenland, after the discovery of a number of female bears which had both male and female sexual organs.
We at the Earth Summit are very concerned about making sure the poor do not breed as much, thus allowing us to maintain our own opulent lifestyle. So drive that BMW SUV, eat your Chilean sea bass, but just be sure to send that check to Zero Population Growth on time to maintain your positive environmental karma! Oh yeah, and blame it all on the United States while you're at it. 😉