Uh ... not exactly.

The Telegraph
Tuesday 13 March 2012

Red meat is blamed for one in 10 early deathsThe Department of Health was last night urged to review its guidance on red meat after a study found that eating almost half the daily recommended amount can significantly increase the risk of dying early from cancer and heart disease ( Read more... )

No. It is not Earth day ( Read more... )

Obama's climate leadership faces test at G8 forumThu Jul 2, 2009 11:33am EDT ( Read more... )

If you are one of the blindly faithful tree-huggin' dirt worshipers trying to lower your carbon footprint, then you might want to skip the Earth Day rallies and festivities.

Boing Boing has the reason why.


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Smoke 'em if you got 'em ( Read more... )

I was just having an online chat with a friend in New Mexico. He was looking at train routes.

Amtrak is okay if you want to travel an east-west route across the US, but is fairly useless for north-south unless you are on the East Coast. If I wanted to go to Denver, I'd have to travel to Illinois first. The routes (pdf) are mostly useless, in other ( Read more... )

Doing a bit of browsing on global warming turned up an interesting link.


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Once again the greenies and environmental do-gooders favor appearance over substance.

It turns out that ecotourism is harming the wildlife.

May 2008 (globally) was the coldest it has has been since 1992 according to University of Alabama - Huntsville data.

There is a great blog about this data here.

One poster writes:
Allan MR MacRae (00:07:01 ( Read more... )

Do you cheat on your spouse or significant other? Then there is a path to absolution for you that won't put you in the local monastery or convent. It is called CheatNeutral. You can buy cheat offsets from monogamous people to neutralize your infidelities.

Just like you can buy carbon offsets to protect the environment, you can now buy cheat ( Read more... )