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What No Impact feels like after ten months

noimpactman.typepad.com — Amazing stuff.. imagine living with no impact.

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  • DanLar75, on 10/15/2007, -5/+17That is soo cool! I heard that David Duchovny of X-files and now Californication lives 100% no impact, or as he describes it 'in a paper house where i ***** in the backyard' Cool!
    • kbedell, on 10/15/2007, -3/+13Now Thats Progress!
      • MacEnvy, on 10/16/2007, -5/+6Progress? Maybe. But I'm surprised this guy's wife hasn't murdered him in his sleep yet.
        • weeeezzll, on 10/16/2007, -0/+8*slaps you in the face with kbedell's sarcasm*
    • michaelb1, on 10/16/2007, -1/+6F No impact.

      I'm all for low impact. Meaning refrigerated food, cars, TV etc powered from non-political, non-polluting renewables.
  • cr3ative, on 10/16/2007, -4/+44I was expecting a satirical blog about life without the Impact font. :(
    • amr05h, on 10/15/2007, -2/+9He would have to be crazy, no man could survive without that.
    • IEatHamburgers, on 10/16/2007, -2/+33SPOILER: He found that Arial Black was an effective substitute
    • Mizzike, on 10/15/2007, -0/+9...imagine... lolcat would become, well, cat.
    • picsectionpleez, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2I thought it had something to do with being in space for 10 months...
  • SaiaRiddle, on 10/16/2007, -5/+39In order to live with 100% no-impact (god, I hate all these cutesy little vocabs we got going for this whole global warming thing), don't you technically have to die? Hmm.
    • Koldkompress, on 10/16/2007, -2/+18Even then, your composting body contributes something to the environment, having an impact.
      • Godlike, on 10/16/2007, -1/+19Your corpse would give off CO2 as it rots.
        • MiDri, on 10/15/2007, -1/+9So you are saying, by living for ever I am helping the environment? I'm in!
        • IEatHamburgers, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6You give off CO2 whether you're dead or not.
  • ghosttown80, on 10/15/2007, -2/+17And what is Impact?
    • Bdog2g2, on 10/16/2007, -8/+3im·pact /n. ˈɪmpækt; v. ɪmˈpækt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[n. im-pakt; v. im-pakt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
      –noun
      1. the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
      2. an impinging: the impact of light on the eye.
      3. influence; effect: the impact of Einstein on modern physics.
      4. an impacting; forcible impinging: the tremendous impact of the shot.
      5. the force exerted by a new idea, concept, technology, or ideology: the impact of the industrial revolution.
      –verb (used with object)
      6. to drive or press closely or firmly into something; pack in.
      7. to fill up; congest; throng: A vast crowd impacted St. Peter's Square.
      8. to collide with; strike forcefully: a rocket designed to impact the planet Mars.
      9. to have an impact or effect on; influence; alter: The decision may impact your whole career. The auto industry will be impacted by the new labor agreements.
      –verb (used without object)
      10. to have impact or make contact forcefully: The ball impacted against the bat with a loud noise.
      11. to have an impact or effect: Increased demand will impact on sales.
    • staticneuron, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4From the context, I imagine this refers to the effect us human beings have on the environment everyday.
  • technophobe, on 10/16/2007, -6/+1fs, 9/10 front page links don't work these days
    • HHP2K, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2As I've said to others: You're on digg. Get over it and stop whining.
    • weeeezzll, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8Seriously why the ***** doesn't Digg automatically cache pages and make a link available to them?
      • teh_techie, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Bandwidth!
      • resplence, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3Because it's not their intention to steal traffic from the sites. That's been answered time and time again.
    • krets, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3http://duggmirror.com/

      Chill.
    • MindTrigger, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Do you really expect every webserver/internet connection on the internet to be able to handle tens of thousands of simultaneous hits whenever some jerkoff decides to post a digg article? People tend to plan their infrastructure around normal daily traffic, not potential digg bombs.
  • manray, on 10/15/2007, -3/+6No impact living... that depends on infrastructure that has ruined the environment.
    • weeeezzll, on 10/16/2007, -3/+1Seriously why the ***** doesn't Digg automatically cache pages and make a link available to them?
      • weeeezzll, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1Must have clicked the wrong reply link...
        Hmm....
    • floorman56, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Really? what is the impact of all the people in New York using the barhroom in the woods? ...For a week?
  • hutter, on 10/16/2007, -3/+6I'm confused about the messages here - is this about living 'no impact' or the importance of maintaining a social network... either way I can digg it. Cool stuff.
    • Frei, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4I think he wants everyone to get their friends and family together to play duck-duck-goose in the dark.
  • mstoneburner, on 10/16/2007, -17/+46What a lying son of a bitch. It's impossible to live without impacting the environment. Buried for self-serving dishonesty.
    • Chompy, on 10/16/2007, -4/+11That goes double for someone who drags his infant daughter along for the "ride".
    • funkatron3000, on 10/16/2007, -3/+10You seem to be reacting pretty harshly for someone who obviously didn't even read the blog. He specifically says it's no NET impact. Calm down.
    • keviniskool, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Heck, you can't die without impacting the environment.
  • tehxen3, on 10/15/2007, -4/+17Yes back then everyone was happy that they couldn't have heating or hot water, advanced medicine and no contact with distand friends and relatives for years...
    • tim620, on 10/16/2007, -6/+5Yes, "back then" people didn't know any different. It is possible to live without many of today's advances and be happy. Somehow we have been sold the notion that we need technology and things to make us happy. Actually, there are times I would love to be part of an Amish community (or something similar) and get away from our modern technology that is destroying our social fabric.
      • teh_techie, on 10/16/2007, -2/+4Then get the hell off digg...
      • resplence, on 10/15/2007, -2/+4It's not the technology that's destroying the social fabric. It's people.
        • michaelb1, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Soylent Green is people.
        • tim620, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2I agree. It is people. It is people who are caught up in become more individualized (less community) and substituting love and community with consumerism. Modern technology helps drive this. For instance, prior to cable TV, air-conditioning, garage door openers, people would actually have to get out of their car to open their garage (usually resulting in talking to neighbors), they would sit on their front porch on a hot day, talking and interacting with neighbors outside. Now people can drive their car close to their house, push a button in their car, the garage door opens, they then walk into their air conditioned house and turn on their TV with 1000 satellite TV channels. They never have to walk outside, except to get their mail. People don't need to know their neighbors anymore. The community falls apart. etc, etc.
      • Chompy, on 10/15/2007, -1/+4So go join the Amish, nothing is stopping you. I'm sure there's a process for joining.
        • tim620, on 10/15/2007, -3/+1I said "there are times I would". Not saying I ever would. Just a dream sometimes. :-)
    • Terr01, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2tehxen3: A false dilemma. Fundamentally a lot of our environmental impact exists simply because it doesn't seem worth it (in the short-term-monetary sense) to avoid it, rather than a lack of technological ability or sheer presence of technology.
  • Lanefair, on 10/16/2007, -9/+51How come no impact man uses a f**king computer to write a blog.
    • crashskidmark, on 10/15/2007, -3/+7that's what I was thinking
    • HHP2K, on 10/16/2007, -3/+12Maybe he went to the library. :P Or he's got a laptop that uses solar power to power the battery. I like that idea, actually. Or bike power? Hmm..
      • TjLAXattack, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8If going to the library to use a computer is no impact, then I'm going throw recyclables away in other people's trash and microwave my dinner at their house. At least I will be able to tell people on the internet how I am better than them for living a phony lifestyle.
      • spirontas, on 10/17/2007, -1/+1wow! try typing while pedaling...
    • funkatron3000, on 10/17/2007, -2/+13Because, as he explains on his site, it's no NET impact.
      • Skooma714, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2It certainly does, it is having an impact on the net right now.
    • NSResponder, on 10/19/2007, -11/+7Because like most of the greenies, he doesn't really care about what he's preaching. He's doing this so he'll have some premise upon which to sneer at people who don't want to freeze in the dark, and that's no fun if nobody knows he's doing it.

      -jcr
    • charlietuna, on 10/16/2007, -3/+1Don't worry, I'm sure he's sitting on a bicycle with an alternator as he types. Besides that he is recycling all his electrons.
      http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_6/chpt_4/8.htm ...
    • LoudMusic, on 10/15/2007, -3/+3Because he's trying to reach the people who DO use computers. How would you ever hear about it if he didn't meet you on your own turf?
    • kickelephant, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1He used smoke signals to communicate to his editor. Carbon neutral synthetic smoke, that is.
    • picsectionpleez, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Well that computer could run off of solar or maybe be hand cranked somehow...
    • TWINFM, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2It's a special computer connected to a turbine that is powered by 100 hamster wheels
  • Mier, on 10/18/2007, -4/+16Glad he's doing it. More for me and when he's finally figured out that horrid lie he's been believing it'll be all the more sweet to watch him crack.
    • Lanefair, on 10/18/2007, -1/+2Don't be so mean! If we all did this we could restore equilibrium to our planet that has never been in equilibrium.
      • DryMaltExtract, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1It will never happen. It's nothing more than a pipe dream except for those that survive the armageddon.
  • vertinox, on 10/16/2007, -1/+18I don't know about you, but dying of dysentery kind of sucks.
    • krakdaddy, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I've never died of dysentery, personally.
  • Bleue, on 10/15/2007, -5/+17Anyone else struck by the irony of a man who has cut off electricity, even the use of elevators, and the blogging about it?

    I assume the experiment is over...
    • kbedell, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1No - it's going for 1 year.
    • ReyX, on 10/15/2007, -2/+0To be fair, he was on battery power when he wrote this on his laptop...
      • ObeseSnake, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2And how does said battery get charged?
        • ReyX, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Clearly the sarcasm was lost in translation :/
    • TjLAXattack, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Busted!
  • tim620, on 10/15/2007, -5/+8I find this very interesting. No (or little) electricity and no (or little) technology wouldn't be a bad thing. It would bring people closer as families and bring you into more frequent contact with market owners and others in your community. Lack of community and growing consumerism is eating away at our social fabric.
    • weeeezzll, on 10/15/2007, -1/+5What a load of *****. I have a very close relationship with my daughter and it is because we can so easily and freely communicate via technology. Between work, commuting, homework, and showers I hardly get to see my kids during the weekdays. However I use email, IM and text messaging, and even MMOs to connect with my children. That's not to say that we don't spend physical time together doing things, but if it wasn't for all of this "community ruining", "impersonal" technological communication I wouldn't hardly have a relationship with my kids during the week.

      Technology enables not disables. I like the simplify things also, but this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
      • tim620, on 10/15/2007, -2/+1Good for you. I'm glad technology is allowing you to stay connected to your family. But that is not always the case in our individualized society. My comments where more general and are not always the case for every person.

  • o0joshua0o, on 10/16/2007, -1/+6I like to do "no impact" aerobics.
  • kete00, on 10/16/2007, -5/+12No impact? What about the impact on his kids? He's turning them into dirty hippies.
    • Godlike, on 10/16/2007, -7/+3You know what? You might as well have called him a *****. ***** biggot.
      • TrogdorSmash24, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2No Power=No water=BO=ewwwww
      • krets, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5Wow. Hippies are mean when angered.
        • Godlike, on 10/16/2007, -3/+2This is the same exact problem as racism. You think that only your own way of thinking is right and that it is ok to bash someone for their lifestyle. You refuse to believe that a phrase or word is hurtful to someone else when used in a negative context. Fine, so be it, I am sure humanity will wage the hate war for the rest of eternity - but don't ***** act surprised.
        • krets, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4Only, victims of racism have no choice in the matter. Dirty hippies can take off the Birkenstocks and get a life.
        • DryMaltExtract, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Well, *****, their lifestyle? If it's something they can change then yes, it is okay to hate them for it.

          I hate that guy that stabs me, OH WAIT, THAT"S MEAN BECAUSE IT'S HIS LIFESTYLE. Get real you idiot.
      • kete00, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Wow....Godlike is being very God-like. Besides, everyone likes to make fun of the hippies because they don't have computers and are too lazy to put up a fight.
  • adml_shake, on 10/15/2007, -1/+4Community? I have the Intraweb (now in 2.0!), what the hell do I need my community for?
  • bigteebo, on 10/15/2007, -1/+3Why not explain what "No Impact" is before referencing it? The article told me absolutely nothing. Dugg down.
  • enzomedici, on 10/15/2007, -4/+10No impact? What about the ***** blog? Just another idiot. Going back to the caveman days isn't going to save anything. We'll deforest the whole planet. We'll have to grow more food as insects start eating the organic food. This is why we invented pesticides in the first place jackasses.
    • enginbeering, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Pesticides are a HORRIBLE idea. It's sort of like anti-biotic soap. The more you use, the more resistant the pests become. A few insects are a good thing, because they attract the predatory insects. There's this really neat thing in nature called 'equilibrium', which stupid ***** like pesticides just completely demolish.
  • weeeezzll, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4I love how this article make a connection between high rates of depression and unhappiness with the fact that we don't live the simple lives that we used to. "Most people are unhappy, I am happy living my simple life, so I the way I live my life must be the best way to achieve happiness." Sort of reminds me of the Pastafarian - Pirate Decline/Global Temperature Increase hypothesis.

    The current rate of depression and unhappiness (and past historical trends) have been explained before by much more intelligent people with very well thought out theories. Basically as you improve economically you spend less time thinking about survival and more time thinking about happiness. The idea of a happy human is almost an oxymoron.
    • weeeezzll, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Oh yea and:
      Buried for jumping to conclusions...
  • Channel, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2I don't want to know what it feels like to be dead, for 10 months.
  • minorthreat, on 10/15/2007, -3/+6As we can all see by the comments, the majority of diggers would shrivel up and die if they didn't have a computer... One day on your lunch, go take a walk in the park.. Something tells me the majority of people now days have hardly been outside of the city. I grew up on 100 acres. We had a spring in the field above our house, we buried a tank and ran a line straight to our house. I never really liked it, until I moved away 2 years ago. I wanted to get out and see bigger and better things. Come to find out that city is full of complete idiots and morons, noone can drive here, Everyone wants to take your money and everyone feels like its OK to go in debt over anything... I'm only 25 and now that I live in "the city" I can't wait to move back, can go four wheeling anywhere I want, float down the river with a 12 pack and be able to take a piss in my backyard... and guess what.. There is still access to broadband
  • codehkr77, on 10/15/2007, -0/+0He was using a hand generator to generate electricity in order to write his stupid blog.
  • GiggleStick, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4"You take away their fridge so they can’t keep more than a day or two of food around the house."

    Doesn't that just transfer the impact somewhere else. I mean the food had to be physically moved to his location somehow. Was it ever refrigerated?
    • krets, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3No. They kill neighborhood cats for food.
    • Punisher2K, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2That's what No Impact is about. It's all about I. I don't take electricity, yet it took electricitiy to power the lights in the store. I don't have a refridgerator, yet the store keeps my food cold. I don't cause pollution by driving, yet I expect all my goods to be transported to me. I I I. Self righteous *****.
      • Bleue, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Sorta like calling for a reduction in fossil fuel usage by making hitchhiking the main mode of transportation? :)
        • Punisher2K, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Or by saying we should use hydrogen as a fuel when it takes electricity to make hydrogen.
  • Orat, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3When studying history, I guess I have just always missed the obvious signs that people were so much more remarkably happy in the distant past than they are now. For example, the life expectancy in my country (the United States) was 47 at the turn of the 20th century. That's happiness on a plate right there.
    • AnitraWeb, on 10/16/2007, -2/+1The life expectancy of a homeless person in the U.S. today is 47. We have a growing number of homeless people, and NOT because there has been any boom in laziness, drug addiction, alcoholism, or insanity. It is because we have a society/economy run on the idea that pursuing your own benefit no matter what the expense to anyone else (or the common environment) is a GOOD thing. The creation of poverty, homelessness, untreated illness, early death, dirty air and dirty water does not benefit anyone. We can do something about it. Many people each doing a little bit creates greater and more lasting change than a few people doing big bits.
  • skyfire1, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2I'm going to find that jackass that said life is about happiness and kick him in the rectum. A constant state of happiness doesn't exist. People just are.
  • Orat, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Not that I make a habit of quoting Denis Leary's comedy bits from the 90s, but this one seems pertinent:

    "I'm just not happy. I'm just not happy. I'm just not happy because my life didn't turn out the way I thought it would." Hey! Join the ***** club, ok!? I thought I was going to be the starting center fielder for the Boston Red Socks. Life sucks, get a ***** helmet, allright?! "I'm not happy. I'm not happy." Nobody's happy, ok!? Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate cookie, or a five second orgasm. That's it, ok! You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, you go to sleep, you get up in the morning and go to ***** work, ok!? "
  • ukthom, on 10/16/2007, -6/+5rant

    Jesus H. Christ...as a reader of this blog (subscriber for a month now), I think it's great that he, his wife, and his daughter are trying something out. Something that perhaps doesn't work for all, and in fact, he makes that clear. Rather than spouting the idiotness that is rampant here on Digg, perhaps for one bloody second, you could just imagine the impact of your own life on the planet, and take a look at how what you do makes a difference.

    He uses a computer. BFD. I would like to suggest that rather than drive an SUV, use food in wasted packaging, etc, etc., he's making an effort. Give the guy and his family a break, and for once in your goddamned life, READ THE DAMN BLOG. He never once suggests that living as he does is easy, and he doesn't suggest that the changes he's making are feasible for all.

    /rant
    • krets, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4If Digg starts to make you this angry, you really should consider logging off.
    • mcduckov, on 10/16/2007, -2/+1I think it is cool to have some role models take things to extremes. I try to consider my impact on the environment in all decisions I make. We, in capitalistic societies, are in the VERY unfortunate situation of being on a constantly greased slope to consumerism. Further, more and more of the world is getting on that greased up slippery slope. If you would have told people 500 years ago that there would be 500 million Chinese people charging headlong into a consumerist lifestyle they would have laughed at you. However, that is the situation with pretty much the entire planet.

      Some people are starting to look around and realize that the by-products of this consumerism are literally everywhere. Just when you think you can offshore the pollution to Chine you find out that a hefty chunk of the particulate pollution on the west coast of the USA is from China. Some awareness of the fact that we're burying our planet in chemicals and garbage is leaking out to the world consciousness. But consumerism remains a formidable foe with powerful supporters in nearly every political party around the planet. People are still willing to shrug off reports of the effects of spreading pollutants. "The good life" or "the American Dream" remains a tempting illusion for which 100s of millions of people are willing to toss caution to the wind.
  • plarp, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6if you want to help the environment.. and want to fight consumerism.. then why does he live in new york??
    • salinemist, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6This isn't about the environment, it's about being cool plus a healthy dash of middle class white guilt.
    • enginbeering, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2You can only fight the system from the inside, man.
  • TjLAXattack, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3I prefer Deep Impact, with our president Morgan Freeman.
  • secretivecoward, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5Heck, based on the title, I thought this story was about Democrats having no impact in Congress for the last 10 months...
  • AnitraWeb, on 10/15/2007, -3/+1This is a great blog. I recommend reading the whole story.
  • designer, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3Just go to church. It's easier than worshiping the environment. Also, his site is mainly white which uses more electricity than a black background, just saying.
    • enginbeering, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1That's actually only true for CRT monitors. For LCD it hardly makes a difference, but black is actually more energy expensive than white. White basically means that the 'liquid crystals' are 'open', and black means that they are 'closed'. Because open is the natural state, closing them is what actually costs energy (albeit an almost negligible amount).

      My point: white vs. black doesn't make a difference.

      If we would just look to the cookie!
  • alphonseragusa, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3This guy is stupid.
    I use the internet alot, don't recycle and don't believe in man-made global warming.
    I'm happy as a peach!
  • phlosys, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1What about the carbon dioxide waste his family's breathing is making on the environment? Of course it's impossible to prevent it ... This experiment is completely retarded. Dugg down for impracticable and asinine
  • haroldk, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I have to laugh at how people are willing to suspend disbelief about this guy, Colin. Right off the bat, the blog is poorly named when you come to find out that he's going after, "no NET impact", not NOimpact.... He says:

    In mathematical terms, in case you are an engineer or just a geek who likes math, we are trying to achieve an equilibrium that looks something like this: Negative Impact + Positive Impact = Zero. No net impact. Get it?
    http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/what_y ...

    In other words, they are essentially making up personal "impact credits" to "offset" their negative impact. This sounds like that carbon offset credit farce.

    Also, please don't fool yourself that this is some altruistic activity. The guy looks like an attention whore to me.

    Lemmings unite. Go buy Colin's dead tree book like good consumptionist, consumerists. Follow this guy along with your suspension of disbelief.

    Now that I have played bad cop, good cop says that if people could do the types of things Colon is trying to do in philosophical terms, things would be better off. Huzzah!
  • mindwalker, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2No thanks. I prefer technology and the conveniences of modern civilization, and don't want to be forced to live without them. Also, I don't find it necessary to always have the close connections with people that the author seems to think are so wonderful. Sure they're good sometimes, but a lot of the time I'd rather connect w/ people over the internet (like the author is doing) or simply do my own thing.
  • Spoomeister, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Can we please round up all these whiny, white, upper middle class ***** and send them on a slow rocket to Mars?

    1. They obviously have the settler mentality that would let them survive interplantary travel. And if they don't, this will teach them a damn good lesson.
    2. Scientific study will advance a hell of a lot faster if you have live people going where you want to go, rather than this dribs-and-drabs robot approach.
    3. The only way for the Earth to "heal" is to have less Earthlings on it! So until we can put a dome and rocket boosters on the North American continent and send it into low orbit, we might as well start somewhere.
  • drummerdave96, on 10/16/2007, -1/+0I don't quite get the "no impact" title, but he certainly makes a good point.
    Interaction with other human beings keeps us sane. And by interaction, I mean the fulfillment of the instinctive need to belong.
    The focal point of our society is based on our own individual success. We spend all our lives striving for more, but nothing materialistic can ever truly satisfy us. No matter how much we obtain (money, status, fame, etc.) we will always want more.
    Even volunteer work, and charity, tends to point back at us. I'm a senior in high school, and everyone (including me) spends hours and hours "volunteering" for various causes. However, our only concerns are how great of a person this will portray me as, and how great this will look on my transcript. Our only motive for helping, is that it will make US better off.
    I think the "American Dream" is a joke. If having a successful career, and achieving our own goals is the only purpose of living, then life is monotonous, repetitive, and redundant. We are indoctrinated with the idea that we can make ourselves happy, if we work hard, and focus on our goals. I think this national epidemic of self-interest is a mild form of insanity. We are completely distracted from the beauty and comfort of caring for, and being cared for by other people.
    I'm not saying burn all your possessions and go live in the woods. But perhaps if we spent a little less time fighting for ourselves, and started caring for the well being of others, happiness wouldn't be such a hypothetical fantasy.
  • Cardiakke, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I can see those hypocrites when the doctor tells them that they have something like cancer, heart disease, etc walking away from the best treatment because it has impact.
  • jelli, on 10/16/2007, -1/+1I'm going to find that jackass that said life is about happiness and kick him in the rectum. A constant state of happiness doesn't exist. People just are.
  • tehbored, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2This has a pretty strong "extreme whiny liberal" feel to it, but I guess I can appreciate what he's saying. I think I'll keep most of my modern conveniences like my refrigerator, though.
  • harrisonferrel, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1If there's any hope, it's with the younger generation of people in their 20s. They are sick of the crap that's been going on for years with the abuse of the environment, the joke of the media, wars for oil disguised as something else, racial tension, corporate criminality like Enron and Whole Foods and Halliburton and Bechtel, and fascism hiding behind Democracy. Kudos.
  • Teku, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I feel like calling OCFS on this wackjob and getting his kid taken away from him. It is one thing to do this type of ***** yourself but you should not try it while raising a small child.
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