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.
If you don't meander over today, the permanent link is here.
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