Earth Day, 2002 (Ithaca laff til you barf alert)

Ithaca Journal ^ | 4/20/02 | Sandy Wold

[Behind Liberal Lines]

"Is it too late?" a Cornell undergraduate asked me as we marveled at the Red-tailed Hawk climbing the thermals over the levee bordering Southwest Park.

"It's never too late to change a decision," I told the touring Eco-Design class. "The real issue is the fear of our government officials and the people who elected them to take a risk and try something different."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

...it is the "crazy" ideas that drive the evolution of human consciousness....Ithaca Hours have been quietly growing for years. When our national economy eventually collapses, Ithaca Hours will be there to sustain us.

Uh, yeah....

For those of you who don't know, "Ithaca Hours" is a form of barter system, masquerading as local currency.

Apparently, this nutjob thinks that it will eventually replace the national economy.

Pretty ironic, given that the creator of Ithaca Hours apparently won't take Ithaca Hours as payment if you order his book.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil. Bump

[jalisco555]

Pretty ironic, given that the creator of Ithaca Hours apparently won't take Ithaca Hours as payment if you order his book.

Very Michael Mooreish, no? "Self-deprivation is for thee, but not for me."

[Brett66]

This makes me feel so warm and fuzzy, I would love to see a conterfeiting operation set up close by to obliterate their false Marxist utopia.

[SKI NOW]

"When our national economy eventually collapses, Ithaca Hours will be there to sustain us."

If our economy collapses you can believe that these facists/socalists had a hand in it.

[kidd]

Ihaca is using whores as currency??

(or did I read that wrong?)

[Blue Screen of Death]

"Is it too late?"

Yes it is. There is no hope. You may as well drink, do drugs, skip classes, screw around, grow long hair, stop washing, wear dirty jeans and protest the very system that feeds, clothes and educates you.

You already do? Oh.

[Allegra]

, Ithaca Hours have been quietly growing for years. When our national economy eventually collapses, Ithaca Hours will be there to sustain us.

Gee, now I can sleep soundly at night knowing this. My worries are over.

[nightdriver]

"Where there is openness, there is possibility. Where there is a will, there is a way. Where there is community spirit, there is divinity."

OK, enough awready! I'm being cliche'd to death! Not a solid, substantive statement in the entire article.

[the]

"Ithaca is the City of Evil" bumper stickers are now available from www.FreepStuff.com.

Once you get to the FreepStuff page search for "Ithaca" and you can see the two choices.

One is a rectangular full size design, the other provides two small square-ish stickers (so you can share one with a friend, or as a backup after some wacky lib trashes your first one...) for the price of one sticker.

[Soaring Feather]

City of Evil. Bump

[Fintan]

2. ad inserts, consumerism, and consumption;

Which is how Mommy & Daddy pay for Junior's college "education".

[general_re]

When our national economy eventually collapses, Ithaca Hours will be there to sustain us.

Would it be terribly snide of me to point out that if you could get this guy to substitute "gold" for "Ithaca Hours", he'd fit in here at FR quite nicely? ;)

A right-is-left bump for the City of evil...

[general_re]

Oh, this is even better...

Consider what we might stand to lose by bringing in big boxes:
....
3. a breathtaking view from the DEC fish ladder looking east and reminiscent of the wilderness.

Apparently some sort of natural rock formation. Good thing nobody had to go in and spoil the wilderness by developing such a thing...