Quirky thoughts from an old man.
The Extra Bathroom Tax Before I arrived at the second home tax I was thinking about an extra bathroom tax. In fact I was even a bit more radical than that. We have lots of spare bedrooms and spare bathrooms.We have about a half a million homeless people in America by recent estimates. The answer …
A face mask baseball cap combination has a lot of a advantages. Your mask is on your hat so you won’t forget it, It is handy when you need it, It is virtue signaling made easy. Nurit and I had this idea yesterday. Please feel free to steal it, improve it and be the first …
Carrying a refillable water bottle is an excellent way of virtue signaling that you care about the environment. It should be pointed out that some of that virtue is lost when the bottle comes wrapped in bubble wrap in a cardboard box. Life is a paradox.
Here is a simple idea that might become a big business. Take the idea of refillable bottles that are used now for selling high end olive oil and apply it to shampoo. Reducing the use of single use plastic containers is an attainable personal environmental goal. When you go to the kiosk to refill your …
A sign I saw in front of several houses in Santa Fe. The problem with this sign is that it is based on the misguided assumption that there are no Putins or Kims in the world. That Hitler and Stalin could have been somehow been stopped by “kindness” is untrue. It is dangerously untrue. Ask …
This is not a simple story with a shockingly memorable video. It is a collection of facts. I want to persuade you to direct your environmental attention into actions that will have a real effect on the environment and will not just be virtue signaling. here we go: 1000 straws weigh about 9 ounces (250 …
I wrote a blog post in February of 2008 warning that Plastic Straws were an Environmental Abomination. https://simonburrow.com/?p=604 Straws in Water My opinion about straws and other environmental issues has evolved since then. Because of the video of the turtle and the straw being anti-straw has suddenly become popular. It is a great way of …