it comes in pints?

Ya know, I can think of far better ways of conserving the Earth's resources....

(it starts with folks like Crow maybe not jetting everywhere?)

I always wonder, all these folks who talk about stuff like tp (and I've also seen people deride modern toilets) as being bad, have they ever read about the cholera epidemics in London? Have they ever traveled in the developing world?

I dunno, I'm pretty got-danged thankful for toilet paper. I'm willing to make sacrifices elsewhere (although it's arguable that using a renewable resources like trees - or for that matter, kenaf, which paper can also be made from - is such a problem). But don't follow me into the bathroom. Please.

That said: is it possible Crow was joking? I mean, "dining sleeve"? That sounds an awful lot like a Seinfeld-type invention, like something Kramer would come up with...

The image of Sheryl Crow's eco-friendly but crap-encrusted buttocks is one I could have done without.

It does sound like a Seinfeld episode thought. Maybe it will come out that she was just kidding around.

Possible she was kidding, I suppose, but the coverage sure doesn't sound like it.

Lance Armstrong is looking smarter and smarter.

I drove my very real, very big SUV to church, then back home again. About two hours later, I realized I didn't have dog food, so I got BACK in my very real, very big SUV BY MYSELF and went to the grocery store and back again.

And Sheryl Crow can suck on it.

If she really wants to conserve resources, she could just STFU...

I all seriousness, the whole quasi-religious, assigning-moral-weight-to-minor-personal-choices is the biggest thing that drives me bananas about the extremes of the environmental movement.

It's like, these are the people who 100 years ago would be beating drums and chanting about Demon Rum. It seems that in a time of moral relativism, where things that used to be labeled as clearly "wrong" are now justified by some psychological or class-based reason, people have to find substitutes.

I refuse to be thought of as a moral degenerate because I like to use t.p. The multi-ply kind, even. Burn me at the stake if you wish. (But just remember, if you do: I've got a lot of meat on me, and I'll add a lot of CO2 to the atmosphere...)

I just love watching people get really smug and self-congratulatory about their "contributions" by conserving a couple of squares of toilet paper. Thanks, Sheryl Crow! Here's your certificate (hemp based paper!) proclaiming that you have made a 0.00000000000000000000000000000000
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Good grief. I have spent the past 12 years trying to teach my children NOT to use their sleeves for a napkin. We use both paper napkins and cloth napkins in our home ... because it is convenient at times to have one or the other.

I have a suggestion for her ... instead of pads or tampons, she could use a re-usable cloth that she has to wash when she's done menstruating. It would be earth- friendly. I think that is a fine idea. If she wants an itchy ass from not wiping it good and clean with her three squares of TP, then a bloody cooch shouldn't trouble her in the least, huh?

See, I'm earth-conscious. Gross, but conscious.

Knowing that human breathing and talking both cause quite a lot of the emissions load on our atmosphere, I have a suggestion for Ms. Crow.

But I'll do my part by not saying it out loud.

AoM, she should use this.

She wipes up the front, maybe she can get away with it. #2 is another problem if you're a hair-assed gent, who ran away from Kent.
Growing up in a 3rd world country overseas with very marginal sanitation, my siblings and I got cholera-typhoid booster shots every 6 mos. and the locals didn't. Your whole arm hurts for several day afterwards as the inoculation takes effect.
One thing to especially note is that in such a place, over the Centuries (millenia actually), there developed in the culture a very high standard of fake cleanliness - of Ritual-Purity wherein people attempted (and failed) to distance themselves from Uncleanliness in society at large.
To be "Clean" (sorta like how the clambakers have their "clear") was a bit like Original Sin - and The Clean at the top had/have a much higher status than the Filthy Dirty Unclean Sinners at the bottom. If one even crossed your shadow you could beat the daylights out of him.
Washing in fact is little more than a ritual, an important display of piety - since whether you washed or not is besides the point, when washing takes place in a giardia and bacillus filled scum-pond or river full of monkey pee, offal, and cow shit. Use the left hand only.

Dammit I missed a bracket.

Fixed it, DC - Emily

Sounds like Sheryl Crow is all wiped out.

wait, wait, I have an even better invention:

the Dining Shirt False Front.

See, it would be a big expanse of cloth that you tie over the front of your shirt when you eat. If you get food on your face, you can pick up a corner of the shirt and wipe it off. You also protect your clothing from spills and stains, making it last longer (and allowing you to go longer between washing it, thus saving more precious Earthly resources).

It would also be large enough that it could be printed (in soy ink, of course) with slogans, like "I'm better than you" or "Hey hey, ho ho, paper napkins have got to go." Or you could put Hello Kitty on it if you liked.

Yeah, yeah, call it a "bib" if you will. But trust me....soon's I patent this thing, I'm going to be laughing all the way to the bank.

Well, if her music is shitty, why not the hand that writes it?

I can't believe I'm saying this, b/c I don't like her singing, but she should stick to singing.

When I was in the car at lunchtime, I heard a clip of her going on and on, in her valley-girl voice, about how this is "science has spoken and this is the most important issue of our lives" or something like that. Other singers tell me it's war. I'm so confused.

The worst part about it for me, Kate? These people are not incapable of educating themselves. Reading a Greeenpeace press release does not equal research, but far, far too many of them think that it does. I don't necessarily expect all entertainers to "stick to [their chosen form of expression]," but if they're going to open their yaps about politics, current events or science, it would be nice if one of them actually contributed something useful to the conversation beyond rhetoric and empty gestures. Simply proclaiming that you "care" does not make a difference.

Science has not spoken, Sheryl. It very rarely does in a uniform voice. There are a great many scientists questioning the dogma of these people. The difference is, most of them are being shouted down and/or ignored. Amazing. Five hundred years after locking Galileo in the tower for having an unpopular opinion and we've learned nothing.

Maybe that's it, Emily--I feel as if I'm getting some highlighted buzzword-phrases from a press release/brochure repeatedly screamed at me. And it just seems like another opportunity to feel smugly self-satisfied and better than the peons--whose money they already get, and yet they must boss them around, too?

She's just feeling guilty about her huge footprint; must be why she dated a guy who can pedal through the whole of France in twenty hours or so.

Curiously, Ms. Crow - would your music and/or this press release qualify as a pesky occasion? Should I buy some stock in Charmin?

Thank-you Emily!

Next Earth Day, buy a used Suburban or an old International Travelall.

Ride it around all day, then sell it again. For Gaia.

Sheryl Crow sounds like a roll of toilet paper without the cardboard tube.