Tuesday, March 13, 2007

[blogfocus tuesday] beauty and the beast

It was going to be on Wednesday but it got itself ready by Tuesday after all. It's the return of the heavyweights this evening, interspersed with some really neat little blogs and that's real beauty and the beast stuff. Hope you enjoy it.

1 Iain Dale said about him: "Thoughtful rather than ranting" and Guido said of his blog: "I don't read it." Do you need any more reasons to make this one of your daily ports of call? Dizzy gives an annotated, point form list of the green government's suggestions for you to be personally less wasteful. Here's the final point:

Idling is wasting fuel - Stop wasting fuel in traffic jams. Turn the engine off. What do you mean you're stereo isn't rigged directly to your battery and requires the ignition to be on to listen too? The planet is more important than you're desire to listen to Kylie.

Do have a look at the rest of the
site. I imagine it cost a small fortune to set up and will receive very little traffic. I bet they don't think twice about the power consumption of their servers though.

2 Still on the environment, Bel writes of the 'envirofascist'. Of course no serious scientist argues today that it's not happening but the way the EFs have hijacked the agenda, they have created an enormous backlash. Though Bel and I would differ on the former, we're at one on the latter:

A commenter on my previous post took issue with my use of the term ‘envirofascist’. I have been thinking, and while unrepentant, I have decided that, in future, I will no longer use this term when discussing our hypocritical politicians. I will instead call them ‘pharisees’. Why? Because they prescribe how we should live our lives, while they merrily carry on doing whatever they please. Someone once condemned pharisees thus: “They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.”

3 And yet again on the environment, Mr Eugenides mentions the laudable objective of the Mayans in dispersing the bad energy of, say, a George Bush visit:

His arrival brings him to the fourth nation in a five-state tour of the Latin American region. But Maya leaders said they will have to perform a special cleansing ceremony to clear bad energy left by his visit. The Maya, you will recall, cut the hearts out of their human sacrifices [often children] before throwing them from the top of their temples. I wonder if our definitions of "bad energy" are quite the same.

Nine more bloggers here.

1 comment:

  1. As an environmentally aware Pharisee who recycles, drives a Prius and detests Kylie, I bitterly resent your high-handed appropriation of our sect's name. And your (or should I say you're?) nosy government should hire a web writer who knows basic English grammar.

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