After over four months in these United States I would comment that they seem united in environmental waste. In my RV Park I just saw two young brothers headed for the dumpster with two bags of garbage each bigger than either of them. The amount of garbage headed for landfill here is astounding. The contribution made by the purveyors of take-out fast food is frightening to behold. To the three “Rs” of environmentalism:
- Reduce
- Reuse
- Recycle
I would add Refuse (excess packaging).
Nowhere on this side of the border have I seen a can and bottle deposit program for beer and wine bottles. I joke that I can assess the popular beer brands from the detritus I see along the side of most roadways. It feels disquieting to me to be throwing out paper, plastic, glass, foam, and such like but given no alternative and lacking the room to store it I have little choice. How can the richest country on earth be so profligate?
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Here are a few clips I’ve found lately on the web:
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Cossman
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
Q: Why don't cannibals like to eat Pentecostals?
A: Because they keep throwing up their hands.
Utility Pole Bites Back
In Toronto a dog lifted his leg to spray a light pole once too often when a pole bit back and leaked a charge sufficiently large to electrocute the dog.
iTunes would like to update my music collection to DRM Free downloads for $150. Talk about being held for ransom. I lack the disk space and the bandwidth to perform such an operation even if I chose to pay the hostage fee.
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