Sunday, March 01, 2009
A price not worth paying
The logic of climate change -- that we probably cannot prevent catastrophe but must do everything to try -- leads to some strange places. You are not, for example, doing as much as you might do if you do not reuse your toilet wipes.
I'm not by any means fastidious -- anybody who has seen the inside of my car knows that -- but I'd rather the planet burn into a cinder in 100 years than launder my butt rags.
10 Comments:
By 
JPMcT, at
Sun Mar 01, 10:22:00 AM:
In the mind of the true bark-chewer, these rags are only a short stop on the way back to corn cobs.
I guess nobody remembers raising kids in the "pre-Pamper" era. Everybody's house had a god-awful, malodorous "diaper bin" and there were actually diaper service trucks taht would come by and drop off the laundered diapers and pick up the smelly ones. That was a true luxury....usually you laundered them yourself.
I agree with TH....I would rather burst into flames than go back to the "bin".
I wonder if Al Gore wipes his own butt?
By Escort81, at
Sun Mar 01, 11:36:00 AM:
By 
, at
Sun Mar 01, 12:23:00 PM:
The movement is spent. That's a smudge too far.
By , at
Sun Mar 01, 12:54:00 PM:
It is well known that liberals love to IMPOSE taxes, but often do not PAY them......
Dare I wonder if the liberals would impose such a 'rectiligious' requirement of us proletarians, yet NOT do away with their computer-controlled, multi-jet, perfumed spray, temperature-regulated........ bidets........?
Dare,dare!
By , at
Sun Mar 01, 01:01:00 PM:
You want to kill the global warming movement. Have children recycle their parents' toilet wipes. After all, it's about their future.
By , at
Sun Mar 01, 01:07:00 PM:
"I'd rather the planet burn into a cinder in 100 years than launder my butt rags."
Now that's my kind of rebel yell. Yeah! "No Butt Rags!"
Sorry, I know this isn't funny, but it is.
By , at
Sun Mar 01, 01:40:00 PM:
By Larry Sheldon, at
Sun Mar 01, 02:02:00 PM:
Near as I can tell, all Gore thinks his shit don't stink.
My mother washed the diapers my brother used--I assume she washed the ones I used, but I don't remember.
One of the most thoughtful gifts I (we) have ever received was 6-months of diaper service with each of our three--from my mother.
And that barrel on the front porch was something you could be sure nobody would steal.
I don't remember (but have in fact used) corn cobs being that back. Sears catalogs were way worse--so slick as to be near useless, even if you "roughed" them up.
But we probably do need to get into such things, when the folks succeed in dumping us back into the 10th century and we all eat one-handed....
By Brian, at
Sun Mar 01, 06:53:00 PM:
FWIW, if you click through the link, they say that most families just use them as cleanup for Number 1, not for Number 2.
By , at
Sun Mar 01, 09:43:00 PM:
Recently, a UK study showed that disposable nappies were better for the environment than endless washing and drying the old fashioned way.
Undeterred, the Greenies have moved on to this latest trick.. and it'll be proved a false economy as well..
From there, the next trick is inescapable.. you'll know it's arrived when your progressive neighbour is out on the front lawn, naked, and scooting backwards and forwards on the grass in imitation of his wormy dog.
JC
