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David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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A poll!
You may have noticed that I can't bring myself to post about anything serious today. It's Friday, for chrissake, and the sun's finally out in Seattle. Instead, how about a stoopid poll. Vote below the fold.
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The glossy backlash
Yesterday I took a few potshots at the Wired green issue.
Now the glossy backlash continues, with a DailyKos diarist going postal on the Vanity Fair green issue:
Every pathology of the overripe zenith of American hyperconsumerism and narcissism, proudly flaunted in one shiny, garishly overcoloured, borderline-porno, pretty-shiny-toxic package. What an experience.
Bitchy is the new green!
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Amen
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps.
Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can't attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.
In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are "overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis."
Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group's founder.
"It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world -- God," Royster said.
The Web site is at praylive.com. The toll-free phone number is 888-PRAYLIVE.S'pose it has as much chance of working as this stuff.
(via EnergyBulletin)
