How many light bulbs does it take to save the Earth?

None of them, apparently:

As you’ve probably heard, if one million American households each changed four lightbulbs to eco-friendly fluorescent, we would eliminate 900,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year. That’s less than one teragram, or about one-seventh of the emissions of just the US rice-cultivation industry.

Via cursor.

The deadly truth of Awareness Weeks

October 22nd marks the beginning of Islamofascism Awareness Week. Here's John McCain on the issue.

According to Front Page Magazine, in a nutshell, here's what Islamo-fascist Awareness week is all about:

The purpose of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is as simple as it is critical: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the "war on terror" and that global warming is a greater danger to Americans than global jihad and Islamic supremacism.

We here at Angry and Sloppy find it quite interesting that this awareness week coincides on the week AFTER Clock-brain awareness week--just two weeks before Halloween! Also note that like Clockbrain, Islamo-fascism is ambiguous in its hyphenation/compound word/or two separate words state of existence. If that's the nature of language, or the nature of new deadly threats--i'm not sure. Simple and critical, sure. But what's more simple and critical: the threat of a religiousio-totalitarianistic ideal (namely Islamo-Fascism), or a tenacious and wide-spread affliction (namely, Clock-brain)--and, more simply and critically, which is more imminently threatening, Global Warming or Jihadism, or Global Warming or Mass-Global Clock-braining? It's a conundrum of a pickle--and it deserves awareness weeks, no doubt. Both come at the same time Global Warming is cancering the newpapers after New Order Priest Gore won the Noble Peace Prize. Awareness is at an all time premium! And Salman Rushdie's ex-wife ain't helping us!

(Super sexy Rushdie-ex image taken from here.)


But, and this is my point, Clockbrain advocacy is at an all time low. There is no funding for it. So, if you are reading this, remind your friends: Yes, the terrorists want to kill us, but their killing us will do no good if we've got clocks in our brains.

The Degradation of a Genius: Rutger Hauer

It might as well be known, that I, Laogzed, god of the troglodytes, have an interest in film outside the Jodorowsky. And when a god has an interest in film, you should take notice. Film is fantasy, but, when used properly, it is visceral and can change lives (I'm thinking specifically of Kubrick's Spartacus.) Therefore, it with great sorrow that I report to the readers of A&S that my favorite line from any Hollywood ever. Let it be known:




















And now, for the bad news. (I'm full of it, and being chaotic evil, I have mixed feelings about spreading bad news--but refuse to get philosophical about it.) There is going to be a re-release of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Director's Cut. And they've done some cosmetic work on it, which apparently isn't as invasive and shitty as the Lucas Makeover. But, however, they redid some dialogue, and now Rutger Hauer's classic line has been changed from "Give me more life, fucker," to, get this:

"Give me more life, father."


ERRRRROWWWWWWWOOOOOOOGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I'm not calling a fatwa--that's not my style, I'm not that kind of god. (Well, I am, but not on something this petty.) But it has made me more cynical, and now I have more cause for hesitation. My faith has been misplaced. Luckily my troglodyte psychiatrist has upped my dosage of troglodyte prozac. (Par-boiled pretty little girls.)