The 'war on earth day' rages on!

We just have to note David Boze's (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) tortured prose, and bundled cliches in his poetically named blog post, Earth Day Sucks. 

Sorry Earth Day, I'll continue to honor Creation every time I see the sun set, and every time I see the Olympics tower over the horizon like some kind of mythical wall. I'll revere the wild as I hike through the forests hunting, becoming a part of nature and learning anew the value of what I eat. I'll continue to look down from atop the peaks of mountains across the northwest and marvel at how the valleys below look so painfully beautiful it seems as though they must have been directly carved by the hands of a loving God. And I won't forget that man is a part of that creation.

As the poetic Dave is hiking, revering, learning, shooting, and becoming a part of nature by eating it, the conservative Dave can't help but notice: The hills are alive with the sound of markets!

And when it comes to man, it's the free market system that has made our lives easier, freer, cleaner, healthier, and more creative.

That's beauty-ful Dave, (Reminds us of a morning at scout camp and a crude, but caffeinated counselor's exhortations of nature's beauty: "Look at that fuckin' sun comin' up over that fuckin' Pilchuck," he cried, "It's fuckin' poetry!")

(Photo: Dave often dresses in colorful -- and politically incorrect -- pelts and furs).

We'd like to say that when Boze and his buddies call off their dogs of War on Earth Day, we'll run up the white flag on our War on Xmas... but, we're winning!

Earth Day, which is a little contrived and rather self-righteous seems to be taken more seriously every year -- even without the materialistic customs that makes Xmas numero uno. What started as a hippy idea back in the day, is now ingrained in the DNA of generations of school kids.. as well it should be. (If Xmas was just a religious holiday with no shopping,in would be a chopped liver holiday like like Maundy Thursday or St. Pinnawinna's Birthday).

We appreciate that Dave Boze makes an attempt at prosaic writing... but we gotta recommend he dust off the old Strunk & White they made him buy in college.

Comments

[sparky]

Thoreau he is not. I bet he gets all decked out at Eddie Bauer before he ventures out to hunt Wabbits. Love the cartoon, and your scouting days made me laugh out loud.

[I Like Dennis ... (Kucinich)]

Earth Day is a pile of shit and should be banned. It is counter-productive and has become a bile marketing machine. Anyone who buys into its hype might as well be sitting on the BoD of Exxon.

From the staff at the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood:

Have you done your Earth Day shopping yet? Between greeting cards, jewelry, mugs, and teddy bears commemorating the day, its roots in environmental activism have all but been forgotten. Now corporations use Earth Day to sell us on the belief that we can buy our way into ecological sustainability. We can't.

[I Like Dennis ... (Kucinich)]

is now ingrained in the DNA of generations of school kids.. as well it should be

Again, for the Campaign for a Commerical Free Childhood:

What these companies aren't doing is cutting back on their relentless marketing to children. Instead, as one Nickelodeon executive put it, "On Earth Day, we are using the power of our brand to connect kids to an issue of importance to them."

[DH]

who in the hell is dave boze? why should we give a shit?

[James James]

Michael Hood was a Boy Scout? Do tell.

[KS]

Earth Day has been perverted by its politicization. It had good intentions, but as the saying goes; "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

The way school kids celebrate it is pathetic as the political correctness of the indoctrinating adult - known more commonly as teachers. Some of them even focus on activists like Earth First and the Earth Liberation Front are fighting for the planet (never mind the fact that they are environmental terrorists) and the revisionist history that makes Earth Day suck the big one...

Earth Day...let's hear it for nuclear power !