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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Posted on: September 3, 2008 3:00 PM, by Benjamin Cohen
That's how today's McSweeney's column began at least. In the course of revision, it became "An Anti-Environmentalist Writes His Next Column While Eating Take-out and Driving His Hummer." My motivation was this asinine column by Tierney a little over a month ago. Did I mention how unnerving this guy's reasoning is? It is. It's bad. Asinine, one might say.
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