Posted on 01/21/2002 10:00:25 AM PST by Big Bunyip
Monday, January 21, 2002
SMALL TREES ARE PEOPLE, TOO: Julia Butterfly Hill, the brain-damaged Arkansas crank who spent two years living in a redwood tree named Luna, has become the toast of the radical environmental movement.
Her credentials are impeccable. So far she's saved exactly one tree.
Last year Butterfly Hill wrote a book – The Legacy of Luna – about her time in the tree. I wonder if she ever considers the tiny, unknown trees that gave their lives to become one of the 272 pages in Butterfly Hill's memoirs.
Please, a moment of silence for Luna's brothers and sisters. Poor little Tuba, and Bingo, and Loopy!
Their only crime was that they were too small to support a hippie. And now they've been slashed to death so bigoted Butterfly Hill can promote tyrannical redwood hegemony. Down with big trees!
posted by Tim Blair at 11:56 PM
TIMBER!
Up with houses and decks!
The "trickle-down" theory doesn't work. All those small trees want is to receive their fair share of the God-given rain and sunshine.
What about the children?
Then there is that OTHER book: Unintended Consequences
Then there is that OTHER book: Unintended Consequences
With a Lunatic living in it.
Tree Huger: Do you know how many trees had to die for that bag?
Clerk: Do you know how many dinosaurs had to die to make that plastic bag?
They forgot about printers. -Tom
Sam B., of antiwar,com, sends this:
"You might want to check out Justin Raimondo's January 16 column on ‘Warbloggers,’ which mentions InstaPundit."
Or I might want to shove urine-soaked punji spikes into my eyes. Depends how I’m feeling on the day.
Ynuck, Ynuck!!!!
Quite right. AlGore is a small tree. QED.
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