Double Birds

Head over to Film Econ to learn about the EPA causing the apocalypse in Ghostbusters. Sorry.  This isn't your day. And here's the saddest quote ever by a man whose business was destroyed by the state : "The way the government goes after places like [my business] is by an accumulation of laws, regulations, and subjective decisions they are allowed to use to express their intent. Essentially they remove your security, increase your risk or liability, and increase your costs. This makes the closing of [my business] and similar manufacturing and accumulation of issues and not a single issue. They simply grind away until you either quit or they find methods of bringing serious charges or fines that force you to close."

To get you in the mood for Earth Day, here's a classic rant by the late George Carlin (warning: he swears). LDS doctrine teaches that we are stewards over the Earth .  We will be held accountable for what we do here, whether we make the desert blossom as a rose , or turn fertile river valleys back into deserts .  The most powerful scriptural backing for why we should care for the Earth is found exclusively in LDS scripture . So I care about Earth, and think we should take care of it.  Unfortunately there's a dark side to "going green. " Some think, for example: "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem." "We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age." "The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing." (Source: Frightening Quotes From Environmentalists ) These people have murder and hatred in their hearts.  Is there a...

The Simpsons has excelled at caricaturing society in a way that made us all take a pensive look in the mirror.  The bad guys in The Simpsons Movie were mostly power-tripping/incompetent government officials, which makes it a great tool for spreading the idea of libertarianism. Check out S.M. Oliva's review of it over at LewRockwell.com.