Our Flickering Fluorescent Future
Ross and Jim, standard bearers of the Incandescent Counterrevolution have met their match in the bishops of London and Liverpool, who are urging a “carbon fast” for Lent. As if our vestigial ascetic capacity were not already debased enough, the new Lenten fast involves unscrewing a light bulb or two, then celebrating the Resurrection around the pallid glow of a new compact fluorescent bulb. Really.
I hope someone, somewhere, celebrated Carnival by doing donuts in his Hummer.
Weak last line. Comments like that only reinforce the perception that there is little more to conservatism than resentment of liberals.
— nodakdude · Feb 7, 06:40 PM · #
Comments like yours only reinforce the perception that most liberals are humorless. Yea, righteous indignation, get on with your bad self!
— Derrick · Feb 7, 07:36 PM · #
You know how Mickey Kaus is nothing more than self-parody at this point? For instance, when the bee population collapsed and people were concerned, he wrote a post on his blog saying (I swear to god)… “my mom says she sees lots of bees.” Seriously, he posted that, and got paid to do so.
Anyway— that’s not something you should try to emulate.
— Freddie · Feb 7, 07:51 PM · #
By the way, that was in response to Derrick’s response to nodakdude, not to Matt Frost’s post. Just clearing that up.
— Freddie · Feb 7, 07:52 PM · #
Freddie,
I’d like to emulate the “getting paid for it part”.
I’ve already got self-parody down cold.
— keatssycamore · Feb 7, 08:21 PM · #
Freddie, how about we jail politicians who ignore climate science? http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513
Liberal fascism, baby! How’s that for self-parody, you freaking douche-bag?
— Derrick · Feb 7, 10:39 PM · #
Now children. Here I am trying to log a remark about Christianity’s inherent power to co-opt any old bit of ascetic BS and I must step over someone’s douche bag to do so? Tisk.
— James · Feb 7, 11:05 PM · #