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Your Man could not care less about polar bears

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Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

I am 98.73 percent sure that global warming is a sham. This last weekend I froze my butt off.

Is it just me or is the middle of October too early for this crap? I could swear there was a season between summer and winter, but it obviously doesn’t exist here. 


Global warming; I will admit, at one time I bought into it. But it’s been like 10 years since people started talking about it, and I don’t think it has happened yet. I was actually looking forward to a little hotter temperature. I like to be tan year round and after finding out that tanning beds are as dangerous as Arsenic, how else am I going to keep my glow?


Forgive me for being insensitive to all you environmental people and Mother Nature, but I am not a polar bear on an ice pack so I don’t really have that much at stake here.  I really don’t see any downside to a little toastier planet. According to LiveScience.com, I found out that Marmots are ending their hibernation a full 3 weeks earlier than they have in the last 30 years. I say good for them, it’s about time we got some more productive Marmots. Polar bears are thinner than they were 20 years ago. Good. We’ re helping them keep their childish figure. And coral reefs are expected to triple in size due to warmer water. That’s awesome because now tourists will have more places to be eaten by sharks, and I get to watch it on Shark Week. All this great stuff and people are still trying to pass off global warming as a bad thing? 


Things would be much better if we just quit this recycling crap and got this planet just a little hotter. I got so cold this weekend, I had to burn my Al Gore poster and DVD copy of “An Inconvenient Truth” just to stay warm. Maryville is possibly one of the coldest places on earth and it’s going to get worse and its only October. So let’s do everyone a favor, especially those kids that insist on wearing shorts year round, and please be more wasteful. 


Let’s heat this sucker up.  Burn 4 tires this weekend. Use 75 squares of toilet paper and flush 6 times. Keep all your lights on 24/7. Run the tap while brushing your teeth, showering, shaving and using the toilet. Spray as many aerosol cans as you can find. Buy a Hummer and drive it to your mail box 4 times a day; or better yet, just start the thing, crank the heat and sit in it for hours. (Please do not attempt in your garage). It’s time for some climatic change, I think we all should do our part to help it along, and do this quick because spring break is going to be here sooner than I can imagine and I do not have a passport to get into Mexico. 

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4 comments

Tim
Wed Oct 21 2009 15:03
what is the point of any of this? will this column ever really leave a reader laughing? Start it before 3pm on Wednesday. It's been a long time since the stroller was witty, thought provoking, or really very controversial. Study the archives, then follow that up with some"homework." Generate a fresh idea and interview some people to get an idea of some "below the radar" things going on in Maryville and at the University. What you've written here is bland at best. Watch the news, attend some meetings of the regents, pay attention, and start earlier. The stroller could and should be so much better than this. I don't mean to insult you, but this is uninspired and hasty journalism. Nothing approaching true satire.
Your Man
Sat Oct 17 2009 01:47
When the Yellowstone supervolcano blows i will have a great spot to roast my marshmallows, thanks for the upbeat outlook!
Your name
Thu Oct 15 2009 11:49
Correction in prior message re typo: qualified climatologists and are should be: qualified climatologists are
Karen
Thu Oct 15 2009 11:47
Beaches are rising and many people notice it. Areas where there were sandy areas and marshes are filling up with water. Plus, normal global warming when natural is generally gradual, and the changes being noticed by qualified climatologists and are sudden compared to normal global warming from what I gather. Hey, let's get real and keep it all in perspective. When the Yellowstone supervolcano blows, then most of us will be history. We can't argue with ole ma nature and in her eyes humanity is a nonentity. It's happened before and is definitely on schedule to happen again. Good Luck!!!






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