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Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Did I just buy an SUV?

I didn't mean to. I am an environmentalist. Really. But before I knew it, there it was, in front of my house.

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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:34 AM

    Destroy the Heretic!

    Well, Mark's article was rather coy and lame it is true. However, despite my driving a minivan that gets good mileage, my own moral imperfections and lapses prevent me from delivering the same force of criticism against this criminal and his planet-killing steel wheelchair, quasi-Hummer, chariot of murder.

    One hopes that the shrillness of the indignation from these letters will provide some kind of moral corrective or at least a spirtual enema for the wayward, so-called environmentalist. But I wonder if the sheer unpleasant noise and heat produced by all the self-righteous whining, might not be an environmental hazard in itself?

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