After, of course, you’ve enjoyed some of our hilarity.

A while back we wrote about a new type of coal burning power plant that was able to sequester carbon and bury it safely underground. Construction was about to break ground in Illinois, but it’s not happening anymore.

“Too expensive.” Classic, Dubya! His Department of Energy put the kibosh on the project because new estimates put the price tag at $1.8 billion—up from $1.3 billion. Please, that’s not even a day in Iraq.

Baby steps. That’s kind of how we view this project—symbolic in so many ways. Think about the first time you tried to make brownies. They probably weren’t as good as Padma’s, but they were okay and somewhat effective nonetheless. The second time around? You were a pro. Just some food for thought (the power plant you wastoids) before you hit the polls.

Bacon Bits

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Last week in the middle of one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign speeches, some bellig fatty got up and chanted “Iron my shirt! Iron my shirt!” while waving a poster he most likely fingered in ketchup that morning waiting in line at the local In-N-Out.

Seems like young butterball’s efforts were pretty useless since they only proved Hillary’s point. Maybe that was the idea? No telling, but for all intents and purposes his stunt is at least providing millions of fat-ists across the globe hours of youtube entertainment.

If you’re going to demonstrate to make a point, do it right… like the Victoria’s Dirty Secret demo this fall by the Wetland Activism collective. By demonstrating, the group got Victoria’s Secret to make a long term commitment to saving the environment, even coming out with a green mini-collection under the designer’s Pink line.

Now let’s all go butter-finger a “One size fits all” poster. Drizzler

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The presidential candidate race is starting to get…dirty.

This week Hillary Clinton made a controversial comment about Martin Luther King which was taken by some as dismissive and offensive. Clinton claims that Obama is misrepresenting her words. John Edwards has picked his side on the issue, openly criticizing Clinton about the incident.

Let the dirt fly! But in moderation of course. A muckracking campaign is never truly legit. In the same way that muckracking threatens to destroy a perfectly good campaign, in the literal sense it threatens to destroy the planet. (Ok, so we’re reaching, shoot me). Soil erosion and land degredation account for nearly 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Even more, these “silent global crises” can undermine food production and water availability.Sucks… almost as much as a racial slip-up by the white candidate in the first minority presidential free-for-all.. ouch.

Drizzler

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We lost some of our cynicism when Barack won the Iowa caucus, but we got a piece of it back when we witnessed Hillary’s alligator tears propel her to victory in New Hampshire.

Anyhow, we still weren’t feeling completely ourselves. So, since we’re always crashing on their couch and eating their food, we decided to ask our smarter, more responsible sisters over at Greenstockd about Hillary’s eco-stance.

Turns out, Hillary pays lip service to the green movement, but it’s not really her bag. That’s okay, though. She knows it’s a problem and has a plan. It emphasizes investment in the green economy, reduced reliance on foreign energy and a cap-and-trade system for corporate emissions. That means companies are allowed to crap out X amount of pollution and if they hit their max, they get to buy another company’s unused allowance.

That’s kind of like when we play power hour with the Greenstockrs. They quit after about 30 minutes, because they “don’t want to get too drunk before going out.” We end up drinking the rest of their beer, make twice as many trips to the pisser, and pass out early.

Speaking of ample rears and regaining our cynicsm. Monica Lewinsky, the woman who paid Hil’s hubby “lip service” in the Oval Office, came out of hiding this week. Okay, we’re back.

Bacon Bits

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It’s a good bandwagon to be on.  With B-rack and Hils duking it out for the love of the people in ‘08, we’ve got ‘em both promising mega-change for the environment, with reassuringly comprehensive plans.  Their plans mirror each other in a lot of ways–mainly their cap-and-trade system (companies are allowed a certain amount of pollution, and can essentially buy the ability to pollute more from those companies polluting less–up to a point), with an auction of pollution permits whose profits would go to help low-income families have energy-efficient homes. Obama has a more detailed vision for transportation, including allotting a bigger budget to public transport (which significantly decreases CO2 emissions) and investing in other non-driving options. Clinton’s transportation angle is investing in plug-in hybrid vehicles (with these, the electricity cost is much less than the cost of gas and there are less greenhouse gas emissions). My feel, for what it’s worth, is that Clinton tries to tackle a lot of different areas but is slightly vague in the execution, and I think the details are where it’s at.

(Thanks to Grist.org for a summary of the issues)