so i know this is random, but i'm thinking weird snacks would be a fun topic. i just ate applesauce with maple syrup, pecans, and crunched up pretzels - and enjoyed every bite. then i started thinking about all the other random combinations that have turned out to be really yummy - carrot sticks dipped in nutella, tater tots in cream of anything soup, and i know that chips in a sandwich has been done before, but can i just say yum!
if we want to be serious, we can also blog about global warming. i'm constantly amused by all the people who believed gore's movie. now i know that our average temperatures are going up and all, but rumor has it that gore's "carbon offsets" mostly go to Generation Investment Management, a company he himself chairs. It would have been more honest to just make a commercial for the company instead of pretending Gore is actually eco-friendly in his own day-to-day life. Back to the movie though: the filthy river that's all polluted with mining byproducts... well, it's just barely downstream from a mining operation on his own land (the Gore farm in Carthage, Tenn.). I hear that the Tennessee Dept. of Environment and Conservation has twice failed the mine in zinc monitoring tests, and last year, served the mine operation notice that it was in violation of the Tennessee Water Quality Control Act. If Gore really wanted to clean up the environment, he could have, oh, not renewed the mining lease. Now that we all have filthy water, we'll have to drink bottled water, and http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070815124541.xzix4g4s&show_article=1 says that's going to cause more global warming. for shame, al!
of course, then we get to talk about why global warming is so bad:
http://heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=14022
oh, wait - if global warming (losing some coast land, and yes, some people's homes, etc.) is holding off another ice age (glaciers covering half of the earth, drastically reducing the amount of arable land for producing crops)... I say crank up the a/c! I think that there's enough time before the flooding for most of the coastal folks to plan to move inland, and that's probably much lesser of an evil than going back to frigidity and only enough resources to support about 5 million people. hmmmm. i wonder if any of us non-fabulously wealthy people would get to be in that 5 mil.
so now's the part where i beg commenters to have a sense of humor and understand that people freaking out about global warming and then driving their SUVs to the store a half mile away is all pretty ironic and that i don't actually want the ice caps to melt. Then you all get to argue away. i'm sure i'll come up with some clever retorts after i've had a nap, and maybe a weird snack.
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My wife tells me that in England they have these things called "chip butties" consisting of a layer of french fries between two pieces of buttered toast. Potatoes and bread are a decadent combo any day, but butter and fryer fat? I bet that's what the Cenobites eat.
Another amazing snack from England is deep fried chocolate. It's especially delicious if the fat is heated using fossil fuels thus contributing to global warming at the same time.
I think chip butties and fried chocolate would be to die for.
i was surprised to find out that not everyone thought peanut butter and banana sandwiches were god's gift to nutrition freaks.
I always thought peanut butter and banana sandwiches were a staple. It goes peanut butter and jam/jelly, peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, then peanut butter and cheddar cheese, which my brother made up when we were kids and I never had the guts to try.
Glenn, thats like saying your uncle invented the handshake, or your grandmother was the first woman to wear pants. I'll have you know that peanut butter and cheddar sandwiches have been in my family before your brother was even a smudge on your granny's trousers.
Seriously. Give it a try. It'll rock your world.
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