Archive for the ‘randomly ranting’ Category

Leaf Blower Season

Since our move to the new neighborhood leaf blowers have been more and more common. Our neighbors actually have yards here and many of them hire people to come out and care for them.
Leaf blowers have always kind of gotten on my nerves. They are noisy and incredibly wasteful. What’s so terrible about having a [...]


Wastefulness in the Chicago Public Schools

Yesterday I was reading an article on a group of people here in Chicago who are trying to get the city to ban stryofoam. Yay! Finally!! I was completely shocked and appalled to learn that Chicago Public Schools serve school lunches to it’s 400,000 students everyday on DISPOSABLE POLYSTYRENE TRAYS. I could not believe what [...]


Antibacterial = Pesticides

This morning I was going through my email and I got my mass email from The Nest. Every once in a while I like to look around that site, it’s a guilty pleasure. I clicked through to read an article and starting browsing around. Thumbing through articles on being green and came across this..

What’s so [...]


Can We Save the World by 2015?

I was reading some random articles on CNN’s website and landed on this page…

A good start would probably be to not buy a giant SUV like a Toyota Sequoia..


Seriously who watches CBS?

The other night I was watching TV and came across what is quite possibly _the_ worst show I have ever seen.
Moonlight
It’s kind of like Law & Order.. but with vampires.
The music was awful, the writing was absolutely terrible but I couldn’t shut it off. Not because I was enjoying myself but I couldn’t believe this [...]