Posted on 09/30/2007 2:16:58 AM PDT by generalhammond
NEXT Friday is Walk to Work Day, which, if I observe it, will deprive a taxi driver of my usual fare.
Being susceptible to enviro-tokenism, quite a few journalists should be joining in. It'll be a sad morning at the wheel for Tran and Nkomo.
One wonders if cabbies might call for a No Press Day in response, shutting down Australia's electronic and print media to cut carbon emissions. The reduction would be substantially larger than anything achieved by walking to work.
Perhaps cabbies will turf us out of their Falcons as part of a taxi-based environmental initiative.
It'd only be fair. I'm no commie - well, not since the mid-80s - but I'm still made uneasy by rich folk bossing around their economic inferiors, or demanding others reduce their quality of life while stomping around like emperors themselves.
Nobody likes a rich hypocrite. If this year has a theme (besides "Kevin 07") it must be "sanctimonious wealthy people telling others how to live" - which is pretty much the long-hand version of "Kevin 07" anyway.
Let's rock through the year thus far in cashed-up enviro-piety:
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