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Allow me to add my vote to the "what were you thinking?" column. Am I supposed to thank Salon for elevating the level of American political discourse? Many of us working to prevent Palin and McCain from being elected are involved because we are tired of the combination of inanity, surreality and fiction involved in politics. We want to figure out how to get a decent national health plan, but instead we feel like out-of-touch nerds when we dare to discuss details. How can we compete with a moose and a dominatrix? (Did I really just have to write that last sentence?) Many of Salon's articles seem to be descending into the realm of look-at-me pundit-hood. I can almost see the wisps of wasted dollars, brain cells, energy, ink and air time floating into the atmosphere.
I'm surprised to see a nominally progressive publication promote the purchase of so much meat and cheese. To my mind, this gift guide would have been a good opportunity to promote lower-impact ideas - as we should all know by know, meat and cheese have a significantly higher carbon footprint than vegan gifts, require vastly more water to produce and so on. Could have been a good opportunity to promote more ecologically refined buying. I imagine I sound rather self-righteous...still, I don't see what's wrong with making purchases for our loved ones that reflect our values.
