[Billthedrill]

I have a colleague who used to be a regular there. I walked up to him a few weeks ago and said, “Hey, got your ticket yet? I hear Burning Man has sold out.” “Burning Man sold out years ago,” he growled. Hmm...

[hinckley buzzard]

hehe. I wouldn't exactly call a desert playa "rustic," but then I'm not from the city or writing for city folks.

I do enjoy watching the burning man webcam every year, just to see what the pampered bourgeois revolutionaries are up to. Sort of like watching a microcosm of the sixties captured under a bell jar.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds like “Burning Man” has turned into “Hypocrite Dude”.

[Saundra Duffy]

There we were - innocent as can be - in Reno last Saturday at the WalMart. The parking lot was packed with these strange hippie-like people. We asked what the heck was going on. “Burning man” man; where have you been? Anyway, it reminded me of my old hippie days only I was not that radical. The shelves inside WalMart were almost bare - the burning-man crowd was buying all the bottled water and beer they could find. An article in the Reno newspaper said every year the burning man crowd is responsible for boosting the economy by millions! Not for me but I don’t care what they do out there in the desert. None of my business. Actually, though, I feel sorry for them if that’s all they can come up with for fun. Sheeeesh.

[Izzy Dunne]

This thread will be useless WITH pictures.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Burning Man people pride themselves on being eco-friendly. But people in evil RVs go there.

I wonder what the carbon footprint of Burning Man is? How many greenhouse gases are released when they burn the dude at the climax? How many greenhouse gases are released by those who take the private jets to get there?

Do all Burning Man participants buy their carbon credits ahead of time, or do they calculate their footprint afterwards, and pay then? How does that work?

[Glenn]

My ultra-liberal Bohemian brother never misses it. He stopped speaking to me a few years back after I took a swipe at his liberal thinking. Oh, well.

[Daaave]

Elon Musk, chief executive of electric-car maker Tesla Motors and co-founder of eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit

"Tesla Motors has received approval for about $465 million in low-interest loans from the US Department of Energy to accelerate the production of affordable, fuel-efficient electric vehicles." teslamotors.com

"The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It's one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy awarded today to spur the development of fuel-efficient vehicles." boingboing.net

[El Sordo]

A mobile Starbucks stand coming soon, I bet...

[dljordan]

“They rely on canned food for meals”

So how “self-reliant” is that? It takes petroleum, mining, nuke, coal or hydro for the electricity to make their canned meals.

[El Sordo]

Ha!

From: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ai.png