Got Lists? The True Meaning of Duh
So, I’m looking through my blog posts and considering changing the design when suddenly it hits me: Where the heck are the LISTS? You can’t have a blog without lists or it just isn’t a blog. We need TOP TEN!! So, I have to get the serious ones off my chest first. Later we’ll progress to inanity and absurdity.
This is a list of ideas that I think about often (I know, scary, you’ll see!) that really were supposed to be the topics for this blog. Hence the DUH part of the name. Without further ado, this list is the DUH list. As in, why haven’t we done these things? Cause — duh! — we so need to!
- Seek to reduce populations worldwide.
Why? Almost every major problem we face today, other than war which seems to be endemic to our species, has overpopulation as its root cause. Global warming, food distribution problems, resource wars (Iraq). I read recently that 100 years ago, we had only 1.65 billion people on the planet. Now only 100 years later, we have 6.7 billion. Eeeek! Here’s a groovy site
called World Mapper with an animation (kind of slow!) of a world map that changes shape to show proportionality for things like carbon emissions, prevalence of HIV, undernourished children, public health spending , etc. - Invent electric pod cars that don’t pollute.
I cannot believe that in a country that drives innovation as hard as ours does that we do not have a massive choice of electric vehicles powered by solar available to consumers. Where’s my pod vehicle people?! I want my pod to expand with more pods to hold my kids and my groceries. I want my pod to have a titanium frame so I can feel comfortable driving the cute little pod next to that neighbor of mine in the Cadillac ESCALADE
drinking her latte and talking on her cell phone. I want my pod to hook into some massive long distance rail system that even allows me to take my pod on trips. To Tahoe. To New York. Wherever, because then I’ll be able to unhook from the rail system and drive the rest of the way on roads. Guess who’s working on inventing a solar-powered electric car? Did you guess Toyota? Ford? Nope. It’s Dyson, the vacuum cleaner company. Cool. I can drive in into my house and clean my floors! - Poll citizens directly to influence federal spending.
Democracy my butt!! I don’t feel like I have any influence whatsoever on how the federal government spends that massive pot of money. Furthermore, I’m pissed at how they do spend it. (War? I don’t want to pay for killing people and bossing other countries around!) When was the last time my government asked me how I’d like my contribution to the federal budget spent? Oh, I’m supposed to pass that along to my local representative? Riiiiiigggghhhht. (See previous post.) That’s gonna make a huge difference cause my pockets are really deep. Oh wait, no they’re not. Dang. Can we have some secured polling here, people? Has no one heard of teh Internets?!
And that, in a nutshell, is the beginning of the duh list.
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Great Blog post. I am going to bookmark and read more often. I love the Blog template … if you need any assistance customizing it let me know!
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.