Comments on: Two Quick Thoughts http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/ America's favorite blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24195 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:32:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24195 Rebecca "Bulldog," you know I'd be looking for your comeback. Butler brought the better game tonight, but our bigs were too much in the closing minutes for your guys. You neutralized our height advantage for much of the game, and played as good defense as we've seen this year. We didn't win until your big who can hit 3s with deadly consistency fouled out and we hit those clutch free throws. My hat is off to Butler (again). I would enjoy having Butler as an opponent every year, although it might give me heart failure. I will close with Ralph Cramden's "How sweet it is!" We beat a very, very good team tonight. On to the Elite 8. Rebecca “Bulldog,” you know I’d be looking for your comeback. Butler brought the better game tonight, but our bigs were too much in the closing minutes for your guys. You neutralized our height advantage for much of the game, and played as good defense as we’ve seen this year. We didn’t win until your big who can hit 3s with deadly consistency fouled out and we hit those clutch free throws. My hat is off to Butler (again). I would enjoy having Butler as an opponent every year, although it might give me heart failure. I will close with Ralph Cramden’s “How sweet it is!” We beat a very, very good team tonight. On to the Elite 8.

]]> by: Rebecca "Bulldog" http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24172 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:47:40 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24172 Yep, wait just a darned minute. David probably won't see this, but I hope Florida puts up a good fight. I always enjoy a good college basketball game. Yep, wait just a darned minute. David probably won’t see this, but I hope Florida puts up a good fight. I always enjoy a good college basketball game.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24144 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:49:09 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24144 I posted my other comment before I read this one, waterfowler. I do think, though, that the intensity of your vitriol toward Al Gore is misguided, and I do think that the human contribution is pretty certainly both significant enough and reversible enough to make us answerable to our grandchildren for not taking the most proactive steps to slow, and then partially reverse, what is being set in motion by human activity. While it is true that there are forces and changes in nature that have very little, if anything, to do with human activity, the loss of the tropical rainforests stands as just one example of pure human destruction with not insignificant consequences, and the unprecedented rise in CO2 levels is another. Al Gore's testimony before the Senate environmental committee was both informed and compelling. And he is way too smart not to know what he is talking about, particularly given how much effort he has put into this issue. Remember, he became an environmentalist as a child at the breakfast table, along with his father, and I imagine his sister, because his mother read them Rachel Carson's THE SILENT SPRING. There is nothing phony about his environmentalism. Like all of us, he is dependent on the accumulated work of the scientific community, to which he has turned in what I argue is a very responsible way. Mr. Inhofe is more agenda-driven, I think, although he might sincerely believe his position to be the more scientific one. If A&M puts it on Memphis Thursday and then prevails in the Elite 8 and round one of the Final 4, and Florida also continues to win, maybe the Gators and the Aggies can go at it for all the marbles (I can hear you now, Rebecca Bulldog, saying Wait just a damned minute). I posted my other comment before I read this one, waterfowler. I do think, though, that the intensity of your vitriol toward Al Gore is misguided, and I do think that the human contribution is pretty certainly both significant enough and reversible enough to make us answerable to our grandchildren for not taking the most proactive steps to slow, and then partially reverse, what is being set in motion by human activity. While it is true that there are forces and changes in nature that have very little, if anything, to do with human activity, the loss of the tropical rainforests stands as just one example of pure human destruction with not insignificant consequences, and the unprecedented rise in CO2 levels is another.
Al Gore’s testimony before the Senate environmental committee was both informed and compelling. And he is way too smart not to know what he is talking about, particularly given how much effort he has put into this issue. Remember, he became an environmentalist as a child at the breakfast table, along with his father, and I imagine his sister, because his mother read them Rachel Carson’s THE SILENT SPRING. There is nothing phony about his environmentalism. Like all of us, he is dependent on the accumulated work of the scientific community, to which he has turned in what I argue is a very responsible way. Mr. Inhofe is more agenda-driven, I think, although he might sincerely believe his position to be the more scientific one.

If A&M puts it on Memphis Thursday and then prevails in the Elite 8 and round one of the Final 4, and Florida also continues to win, maybe the Gators and the Aggies can go at it for all the marbles (I can hear you now, Rebecca Bulldog, saying Wait just a damned minute).

]]> by: waterfowler http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24121 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:58:50 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24121 David, I still get to root for A&M. Good Luck 'Gators. Also, I don't dispute the warming, it's the supposed cause that is suspicious to me. Aren't other planets also warming? And don't humans produce less than 4% of greenhouse gasses? And if evolution is real, I'm sure we'll all grow heat resistant shells before long anyway. David, I still get to root for A&M. Good Luck ‘Gators.
Also, I don’t dispute the warming, it’s the supposed cause that is suspicious to me. Aren’t other planets also warming? And don’t humans produce less than 4% of greenhouse gasses? And if evolution is real, I’m sure we’ll all grow heat resistant shells before long anyway.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24110 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:29:59 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24110 Make it "Sexiest Game Show Host in the Audio World." Make it “Sexiest Game Show Host in the Audio World.”

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24106 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:36:15 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24106 Harold - if there was just a way that you could get Right Said Fred playing in the background, you'd be all set. Harold - if there was just a way that you could get Right Said Fred playing in the background, you’d be all set.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24103 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:46:59 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24103 hedera, we were easily confused as children, a tradition I have proudly carried right through adulthood and on into retirement. hedera, we were easily confused as children, a tradition I have proudly carried right through adulthood and on into retirement.

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24099 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:31:28 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24099 Agggh, Fanny ate TWO of my comments. Let me try to get this one through: I have created a design for the Peter Sagal T-shirt mentioned above. To see it, go to my site by clicking on my name. Agggh, Fanny ate TWO of my comments. Let me try to get this one through:

I have created a design for the Peter Sagal T-shirt mentioned above. To see it, go to my site by clicking on my name.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24093 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:42:38 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24093 All of you must have had a completely different childhood than I did. I never heard of "Duck, duck, grey goose" - or "duck, duck, grey anything" (except, of course, duck duck cover cover; thanks, David) - until someone mentioned it here. Part of the problem may have been that, due to massive allergies, I spent lunchtimes in the principal's office for most of grammar school, because going outside was Bad For Me. And we sang about the old gray <i>mare</i> who ain't what she used to be. And Increase has his verb endings messed up; he <i>should</i> have said, "Someone stealeth my son's identity, I think. I must kick butt." All of you must have had a completely different childhood than I did. I never heard of “Duck, duck, grey goose” - or “duck, duck, grey anything” (except, of course, duck duck cover cover; thanks, David) - until someone mentioned it here. Part of the problem may have been that, due to massive allergies, I spent lunchtimes in the principal’s office for most of grammar school, because going outside was Bad For Me.

And we sang about the old gray mare who ain’t what she used to be.

And Increase has his verb endings messed up; he should have said, “Someone stealeth my son’s identity, I think. I must kick butt.”

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24092 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:13:29 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/03/16/two-quick-thoughts/#comment-24092 latter led, dammit. latter led, dammit.

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