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From: ken rentiers (rentiers mac.com)
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| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:17:31 -0800 (PST) | |
Kermit the Frog once said "It's not easy being green". Even here in
the promised land we occasionally get a bad weather day. This is one.
Rain is raining, wind is blowing; it's colder than Hillary's heart
and darker than Pyongyang after curfew.
Most of my thirty years in south Texas the only two-wheel vehicles I saw beyond the driveway were Harleys; always black, usually chopped, driven by someone with full body tats, poor hygiene and a bad record of attendance at our local tonsorial establishments. But in the last six months a new species has appeared on Houston's streets: the Ecolyte.
For any who doubt that Global Warming is a religious belief consider what it takes to buzz along on a Vespa-like scooter between two 18 wheelers as both temperature and humidity approach triple digits. In a shirt. And tie. On the way to work. Why, the dry cleaning bills alone would be enough to offset any monies saved in reduced gasoline purchases!
But today it was wet and cold and blowing and dark and there he was, wrapped up in yellow vinyl and buzzing along on his pink Vespa - the Ecolyte. The religious fervor needed to undertake such a journey must approach that of the reborn Baptist committed enough to go over Niagara Falls with no barrel, all a-twitter in hypnotic baptismal frenzy.
As I splashed past the fervid eco-darwinian, a model of good lane discipline, I could not but wonder if it would occur to the increasingly wet unfortunate that perhaps a return to hunting and gathering wasn't all it was cracked up to be and maybe, just maybe, embracing technological advance was the way to go.
ken
Most of my thirty years in south Texas the only two-wheel vehicles I saw beyond the driveway were Harleys; always black, usually chopped, driven by someone with full body tats, poor hygiene and a bad record of attendance at our local tonsorial establishments. But in the last six months a new species has appeared on Houston's streets: the Ecolyte.
For any who doubt that Global Warming is a religious belief consider what it takes to buzz along on a Vespa-like scooter between two 18 wheelers as both temperature and humidity approach triple digits. In a shirt. And tie. On the way to work. Why, the dry cleaning bills alone would be enough to offset any monies saved in reduced gasoline purchases!
But today it was wet and cold and blowing and dark and there he was, wrapped up in yellow vinyl and buzzing along on his pink Vespa - the Ecolyte. The religious fervor needed to undertake such a journey must approach that of the reborn Baptist committed enough to go over Niagara Falls with no barrel, all a-twitter in hypnotic baptismal frenzy.
As I splashed past the fervid eco-darwinian, a model of good lane discipline, I could not but wonder if it would occur to the increasingly wet unfortunate that perhaps a return to hunting and gathering wasn't all it was cracked up to be and maybe, just maybe, embracing technological advance was the way to go.
ken
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