[Jinjelsnaps]

Wow. I mean ummm...wow. Makes me embarassed to be living in the SF Bay Area. I hardly know where to begin with this one...

[realpatriot71]

You cannot drive a Prius without being deemed some sort of nutball geek who probably feeds your kids only hemp seeds and homemade sproutburgers with a side of fresh mulch.

Swerve to miss a baby duck and get run over by an SUV . . . :-)

The thing these idiots don't understand is the difference between enviromentalism and conservationism. Enviromentalism has placed the earth, plants, and animals above the humans. Sorry (well not sincerely), wether you believed we were created or dragged our species, tooth and nail, to the top, it still doesn't negate the fact that we are THE TOP. Conservatives don't want to "destroy" the Earth - that's crazy talk. Conservatives want a rational, conservationist approach to the subject of "hurting the enviroment". Sometimes the animals just have to take it,or even (*gasp*) die. Trying to stop civilization is like trying to stop the Earth from going around the sun. Sometimes a critter just has to take one for the team.

[petitfour]

Whose house is most environmentally friendly? Bush's house or Kerry's three, four, five, or is it more houses???? Does John Kerry drive an eco-friendly vehicle when he drives? Or does he drive?

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Romulus]

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act.

Possibly, but given the column's provenance, I'm not sure if the author is complaining about the President or congratulating him.

[presidio9]

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[marsh2]

The fires in southern California demonstrate that green extreme preservationist policies can "love" nature to death. Land and water courses are not static, they change in known cycles over time. A wetland becomes a grassland, becomes a forest then climax and decay or die. If the agent of death is pervasive enough - (insect, fire, etc.,) the forest can drop a few seral stages back into grassland.

Man has learned a lot about managing the natural process through practical sciences such as silvaculture, geomorphology, ecology. Management can be used to mimic the effects of natural process, (such as clear cutting,) or enhance growth, (such as thinning,) or reduce danger (fuel reduction.) The forests produced through management can provide wood products and biomass on a sustainable harvest level. They can enhace recreational use, increase habitat, provide opportunities for multiple use.

Somehow this is "Bad" in the eyes of extremists. According to them, it is not "stewardship" to actually manage resources so that they can be better utilized by humans and other species. The extreme environmentalist considers "no management at all" to be proper stewardship of "the planet" and human use of resources to be an exploitive capitalist sin.

Look at the land that was in the S. California fires, the Biscuit fires, etc. Are we better stewards to have soil that is sterilized, rivers that are clogged with silt, surviving endangered species who have are stressed to extinction from loss of critical habitat? That is what this hysterical extremist would have readers believe with his rant.

[RichInOC]

You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as some sort of New Age freak.

Michael Moore is still alive. How bad can it be?

Mark, this weekend, do something different. Have a normal party with some normal friends (if you can find any). Watch the Super Bowl. Eat too much red meat and other fatty foods. Drink too much beer. Belch. Break wind. Repeat. It'll be fun, and educational for you to see what life is like for us who don't spend our weekend nights pulling a train for a bunch of leather freaks.

[Oliver Boliver Butt]

Morford and some of his stablemates at the SF Chronicle often provide entertaining glimpses of how out-of-touch they are. Those who enjoy reading Morford's lunatic rantings might also enjoy Harley Sorenson; neither let facts get in the way.

[sergeantdave]

I love it when hippy freak eco-fascist commie liberals shoot watermelon seeds outta their arses.

[Libertina]

You cannot think solar power is cool without being labeled a hippie. You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as some sort of New Age freak
Cool, we're making a difference.. ;)

[samtheman]

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