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I flew to the Clinton Global Initiative... in coach
Dear Debra Saunders:
Prejudices are bad, and your latest column is worse. Only a few of the attendees of the recent Clinton Global Initiative conference flew there on their private "Lear Jets". Many of us - including me, Ariadne, David Faustino, Ed Asner, and Ashton Kutcher - flew on regular flights, in my case coach! I specifically chose that method not just because despite being a well-known celebrity I feel an affinity for other coach flyers but also in order to reduce my carbon footprint as small as possible, and driving or taking the train would have raised it more than flying on a flight with a hundred or so other people.
But, while I was on the plane, I was actually working to reduce my carbon profile. As I was jetting over the cornfields of Nebraska, my personal wind farm was happily spinning away, generating thousands of watts of electricity, some of which I share with my neighbors in Malibu! Can you, Debra Saunders, say the same?
Posted by Lori Gold to Lori Gold at 10:23 PM | Comments (0)
Apres Global Warming: stop the black hole factory!
The evidence of global warming is like a loud siren in everyone's ears, and even the BushCo regime is starting to hear about it and realize the trouble we're in. But, believe it or not, there is a more imminent danger: black holes.
Loretta Swit has looked into these matters in her off hours, and we've chatted about them recently (with me furiously taking notes!) It seems that "black holes" are giant repositories of anti-matter. When anti-matter meets matter, nothingness results: they cancel out, and everything that was there disappears.
Now, here's the big problem: we're matter. In fact, everything on Earth including the Earth itself is matter. If a black hole came near the Earth - or was even created on Earth by irresponsible scientists - everything - and I mean everything - could be swallowed up immediately and we'd never know what hit us it would happen so quick. No more cell phones, no more Priuses, no more gardens, rain forests, or beautiful sunsets. And, no more humanity. All gone in a microsecond.
Now, scientists are creating - are you ready for it? - a "black hole factory". This is a laboratory where they'd create the Frankensteinian monster of black holes. Yes, they'd be for study, but they'd also potentially be able to wipe out the entire Earth!
Let me be very frank: I do not trust Charles Q. Choi. He's the author of a recent propaganda piece called "Despite Rumors, Black Hole Factory Will Not Destroy Earth". These are like the "Men in Black" who try to make people forget about UFOs, except he's the "Man in a Black Hole Factory". This particle accelarator could make one black hole every single second of every single day.
That's around 75,462 per day, one and a half million per month, and eighteen million per year! With eighteen million of them being created per year, I have to believe that at least one would escape and destroy everything. Some might even bounce back after hitting the upper atmosphere, weak as it's become.
I can walk, chew gum, chat on my cell phone, and help my husband polish a script all at the same time, and so can you if you were me. So, while we're fighting global warming, I also urge all of you to help fight this evil BushCo scheme that would literally end life as we know it.
Posted by Lori Gold to Lori Gold at 10:07 PM | Comments (2)
Video: Fidel Castro is OK!
Wonderful news from Cuba, as a recent news broadcast from one of the western hemisphere's two remaining democracies shows lider Fidel Castro alive and well as Hugo Chavez - the leader of the other democracy - comes to pay him a visit and congratulate him on his return to health and his return to fighting against the fascistic dictatorial oppressor regime to the north.
Buenos suerte, mi comrade Sr. Castro!
UPDATE: I hate to quote from "that parvenue site" as Ariadne calls them, but comrade Blake Fleetwood has important and heart-warming news. Fidel says "I can speak in a loud voice if I want" and not only that, he can play baseball too!
And:
Castro also met yesterday for an hour with Kofi Annan. Until this morning details of the conversation have not been made public.
However, a Cuban publication, Rebellious Youth, said that Castro gave Annan a book excerpt that details the life of Fidel from 100 hours of interviews between the Cuban leader and the French journalist Ignacio Ramonet.
"To Kofi Annan, our infinite recognition," reads the dedication from Castro to the Secretary General of the UN.
Posted by Ariadne to John Ciccilini at 08:48 PM | Comments (3)
