Fri 14 Mar 2008
From Philly.com: Dr. Seuss would be disappointed by this ‘Horton’
The movie plays around with environmental ideas - the mayor is a microscopic Al Gore, desperately trying to find ways to explain an invisible threat to a disbelieving public.
Meanwhile, in Horton’s world, a benighted conservative kangaroo (she homeschools her kid) brands Horton a heretic, citing his corrupting influence on "the children," and seeks that dustspeck boiled in beezlenut oil.
Poor Al Gore….he’s microscopic in this movie. The heretical norm of ‘those in the know‘ with beliefs about homeschoolers; stuck in that homeschooled thang. Wonder if a conservative homeschooling kangaroo wears a jumper too? I won’t be paying to find out.
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March 14th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I wish Al Gore would go away, he’s harmful to his cause. I also wish he would understand that if it is truly a problem (warming that is), people won’t change until it is economically sensible to do so anyway. Therefore the run up in fossil fuel prices should take care of whatever carbon problems we have much faster than any voluntary or government intervention.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Well, Jason, you know which way our family glows… uuhhh goes.
We now have wind towers (hundreds of ‘em) across our northern landscape now. Most times they turn, sometimes they don’t. Your uncle scoffs at them because of the power output compared to the land usage for these monsters. (I’ll be really shallow and mention that I don’t like red blinking lights across my horizons. We have the Monsanto terminator-plex with their 24 hour construction 2 miles sw of us too. Really annoying all this light pollution w/i miles of us.:-) ) I understand that a neighboring school district is building their own wind turbine for self powering of their facilities with plans to sell the rest to the power company. I think that’s awesome!
I’m with you on the ‘voluntary’ mandated government interventions. Too many interested Parties involved with that. Gets too complicated
March 14th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I’m not a big fan of Monsanto, after researching some of their practices.
I do think nuclear is the right way to go in the short to medium term, in terms of proven technology. Also there needs to be more effort in improving the grid. Pat would know more than me, but from what I read, it’s quite outdated and inefficent.
I think wind could be a nice addition, but too unreliable until there is better storage. Even though it’s good for grandpa, I think ethanol (at least with corn) is just an awful awful idea. I’ve been paying alot of attention to energy issues because they concern my generation. However none of the jokers we have running even really address the issue with anything concrete. Wouldn’t want to anger their campaign contributing masters would they?
March 14th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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April 9th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Dr. Seuss is classic, after seeing Horton Hears a Who i remembered how much he packs into relatively simple storylines…