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Up in the Mountains is the place to be!!
The concept of “whatever floats your boat” comes into play here.
Better give up on that tap water and indoor toilets, too.
I’m sitting here waiting for a storm and praying we don’t lose power and you post this ??????????????
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You don’t really live longer in colder wilderness climates, it just seems like it.
Sounds like he wants to look like Howard Hughes.
... Wait.. No I won't.
We have seen this before.
Forget it.
I want to be warm, not all those other things, - allegedly.
OK...
God forgive me, I wasted a few precious minutes of this life that He has given me reading that dreadful, self-indulgent article.
The author is dreadfully neruotic.
Is “ Reihan Salam” a him, a her, or an it?
Slate magazine caters to the crowd who think that society would be more fair if we each lived at the expense of everyone else, and that everyone must obey our wise overlords. If our wise overlords think you will be more healthy if your house is kept at 50 degrees in the winter, that is what everyone will have. If you disagree, then government won’t pay for your health care like they promised they would.
“My dearest wish is to one day have the pleasure of living in a small cabin in the frigid wilderness. There I will spend my nights covered in heavy wool blankets, eating smoked fish and dried fruit.”
I suspect if he did get his wish, he would find, in the words of Mr. Spock “having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.”
Meaning this twerp would probably bear up in the frigid wilderness worse Joel Fleischmann did in the first season of Northern Exposure (remember that show?)
As for turning the heat down, talk to the White House first. They’re the ones who told us we can’t keep our thermostats at 72 anymore, but crank theirs up to 76...
Don't bother trying to convince me to keep the A/C off during the summer though. ;)
Is this the start of propaganda to prepare us for the Obama blackouts starting next winter due to carbon regs?
I’ve heard the story that “white man build big fire, sit way back while Indian build small fire, sit up close” as a recommendation to conserve available energy but this guy seems to be saying “build no fire and freeze your a$$ off”.
I don’t understand why he’s not living his “dearest wish”. I sure wish he would and stop wasting precious bandwidth with his drivel.
I could never live an urban lifestyle after calling Eagle home, but with 2 woodstoves, my cabin hangs around 75 degrees; my old bones need the heat. NOthing better than drinking coffee sitting nx to my big cookstove, I have fight with the dogs for the best spots.
Anybody can live a rural lifestyle; it's a personal choice. We left Pa over 20 years back; can't imagine that I called back East home half my life?
I’ve lived in Montreal, Canada, I’ve lived in Bozeman, Montana, I’ve lived in several parts of California. I’d sleep in a gutter in Los Angeles before I would ever move back to snow and ice and freezing rain and the rest of it.
At first I suspected this guy was just an environazi but after reading the article and looking at the titles of some of his other articles (it seems he’s supported to be a “conservative”), I’m convinced he belongs in a padded cell.