“If you know anything about bedbugs, you know they are ridiculously difficult to get rid of once you have an infestation.”
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This story is a cute piece about something quite ugly: bedbugs are no joke people. I think last year we had a few and my co-worker recommended this primo spray called: Champion SprayOn® Multi-Purpose Insect & Lice Killer-10 oz. It normally costs $45 a bottle, but you can get it cheaper here. Item CHA5106.
This stuff is great. It doesn’t smell heavily of pesticide (or really of anything) so you can spray the shit out of your mattress and linens and not have to leave the room. If you know anything about bedbugs, you know they are ridiculously difficult to get rid of once you have an infestation. Like, way worse than fleas. Like people have to throw their furniture away.
Evangelicals point to mutualism and say, See, proof of Intelligent Design. And it truly is a marvelous, even miraculous, thing.
But I firmly believe that things like mutualism is proof of evolution, that these beneficial associations exist because they have enabled these species to survive. Without the perpetuation of the species, there are no beneficial associations.
We can point to the shrimp and the goby as a success story, but if we look at the innumerable species of animals who exist or have existed, we see many, many failures. Unintelligent Design, if you will.
As with people, history is written by the winners.
Al Gore, winner of the popular vote in 2000, and focus of the incredibly important 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, today was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — along with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — for their work to alert the world to the threat of global warming.
As such, if we’re channeling the current administration, we are now required to say that this is just further proof that the international community is a failure. They ruined the UN, now they’ve ruined the Nobel Peace Prize. Shit, it was bad enough when they gave the prize to Jimmy Carter, but now you’ve given it to a liberal who’s actually still a relevant political figure!? What’s next? An award for “Most Abortions Performed in 2007″!?!?
Sheesh! Calm down “Administration”. How about we just offer congratulations, and hope that this endorsement of Gore’s efforts will add to the already justifiably high profile of an important environmental issue.
As part of a recent obsession I’ve developed with wanting to know when fruits and vegetables are “in-season” so I can be eating fresher produce, I’m apparently noticing more and more food news. So when I read that 92% of Americans support measures to label food products with their country of origin, I assumed this would be a slam dunk. Right? 92%? That’s a good majority, and that ought to buy you something in a democracy, right? We’ll see about that.In the meantime, our reading assignment is Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It’s a fascinating treatise that exposes some nuance in the history of American food, and even sheds some important light on current “organic” food business.At the end of the day, we just think we all ought to know exactly what we’re putting in our mouths. Deliciousness can no longer be our only criteria.
We’ve heard way too much lately about the seemingly insurmountable environmental problems to which we all contribute every day. It’s enough to make you downright defeatist. It’s enough to make you think we’re all just fucked and there’s nothing to be done.
All we can say is that the more we hear about all of this, and the more we hear politicians bicker about whether the problem really even exists, the more our antennae are drawn to potential solutions. So go check out this list of 20 ways to reduce your carbon footprint (at least 10 of which are pretty easy to do). Perhaps you remember when recycling wasn’t a part of your daily life….that ought to be evidence that changes sometimes come from a groundswell of efforts.
We’re so happy to hear about this new trend in hoighty toighty restaurants. Many San Francisco and New York restaurants are now proudly serving tap water rather than pay the hefty cost, and heftier carbon footprint, of importing something which is supposed to be the most plentiful substance on earth.
In case you haven’t been watching the Discovery Channel’s amazing documentary series Planet Earth, here’s your friendly reminder to catch the wave. It is awe inspiring. As an added bonus, thanks to one of our favorite neighborhood blogs, we now have The Planet Earth Drinking Game.
Of course we’re totally bi-coastal around this site, but since one of those coasts requires copious amounts of driving, we thought we’d ask the question: Is one brand of gasoline better than another?
Now leave us a friendly comment and tell us how totally environmentally awesome you think you are. Also, it’s birthday season, so a “happy, happy” wouldn’t kill you.
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