Gay Cars: Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That Written By: Nina Smith 2007-09-18 20:16:17 “The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.” – Marshall McLuhan
Last weekend as my partner and I picked up our rental car to drive out to the Berkshires, I laughed upon seeing the Subaru (7270) sitting in the stall. Do straight people know that Subarus are considered lesbian cars?
Give a Dime About Junk Mail Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-01-06 15:04:39 According to GreenDimes, a company that prevents paper junk mail and unwanted catalogs, over 100 million trees and 28 billion gallons of water are wasted annually on US junk mail alone.
What GreenDimes aims to do is cut 90% of this unnecessary mail and plant 5 trees per member. For those of us that look forward to J. Crew's merino colors for fall and Pottery Barn's latest entertainment solutions, there is a Catalog Screener where members can opt out of only the catalogs they want stopped (there are 3,000 in total).
The lifetime fee is $20, and if you create a GreenDimes account and refer friends, you get a $3 Referral Bonus for every person who signs up for a GreenDimes service. For the GreenDimes blog, click here. Photo:C4Chaos, Creative Commons, Flickr
Global Warming and the Stock Market Suffer Same Uncertainty Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-08-29 14:53:50
I was doing some research yesterday when it hit me; the stock market and global temperatures (i.e., global warming) are both undergoing a period of such unpredictable instability it’s hard to know what to expect from one day to the next.
Go Green, Get Lean Written By: Eben Esterhuizen 2008-05-04 22:16:06 There is nothing light about cellulite. Recent government reports suggest that one in three American children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, leading some observers to suggest that this might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents.
Most of us assume that obesity is the end result of an unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise, but some scientists think the problem is a more complex one. Pioneering nutritionist Adelle Davis once said, "To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party."
A day after finishing Al Gore's new book, "The Assault on Reason," an image flashed before me: Gore is like a bookend to William Jennings Bryan, another interesting American who never got to be president. I think Bryan may be best known to people with a Northeastern public school education, like my own, as the losing side in "Inherit the Wind." I think my education, perhaps, missed the point about Bryan completely. And the schism post-Bryan created the space for the modern Republican party, and everything Gore dislikes.
