24 Replies to “Dawnings”

1. Ernst Schreiber says:

   March 23, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   Starting out with a Thoreau quote like that just about guarantees not just useful idiocy, but eager useful idiocy.

2. Makewi says:

   March 23, 2011 at 4:38 pm

   Sure, put the smack down on Thoreau if you want Ernst – but do you think he would have not built his shack had some government functionary told him he couldn’t?

3. dicentra says:

   March 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm

   We too often regulate the small things inflexibly, while ignoring the behaviors and habits of thought that pose genuine threats to our — and the organisms with which we share this planet’s — very survival.

   Also known as straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel.

   But I do wonder what it says about our society when we adhere so assiduously to rules and permits for things like a humble cabin while at the same time multinational corporations operate with virtual impunity.

   Don’t forget labor unions, environmental pressure groups, the U.N., and any other sacred cow of the Left.

   As for virtual impunity, ask the oil companies about the impunity with which they drill in the faaaaaar north-westernmost corner of ANWR or in the Gulf of Mexico and compare it with the actual impunity of Brazil or *gasp* Canada.

4. Blake says:

   March 23, 2011 at 4:41 pm

   So, the teacher, rather than go OUTLAW!! and build the darn thing (forgiveness before permission) pens a mighty piece complete with shopworn leftist canards.

   Oh wait, the writer does have a little outlaw in him, because he dares to wield his mighty pen, railing against the conformity of which he is part.

   Irony.

5. newrouter says:

   March 23, 2011 at 4:48 pm

   “or the poisoning of millions of gallons of water through natural gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing in my part of the country”

   your part of the country has a ban on fracking numbnuts

6. McGehee says:

   March 23, 2011 at 5:04 pm

   your part of the country has a ban on fracking numbnuts

   Well, somebody better tell the authorities they have a fracking numbnuts at Ithaca College.

7. Lost My Cookies says:

   March 23, 2011 at 5:13 pm

   I think if Thoreau read that a bunch of 18 and ups needed the help of timber framers to build a tree house he probably would have changed his tax bill into pennies, stuffed them in his pockets and walked slowly and purposefully into Walden pond.

8. JD says:

   March 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm

   The navel gazing, complete lack of self awareness, and the sudden BUNNIES attempt by ranting about multi-national corporations caught my funny bone.

9. Jeff G. says:

   March 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm

   Heh.

10. newrouter says:

    March 23, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    “With Thoreau’s exhortation and example firmly in mind and the blessing of the college administration, the department of environmental studies and sciences undertook the reconstruction of Thoreau’s cabin ”

    check your zoning regs you might need a variance.

11. newrouter says:

    March 23, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    @10

    these folks need outside help to build a shack and don’t understand the statist system they live in and want to grow. higher education not.

12. LBascom says:

    March 23, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    That was just sad. It’s like a kid that just discovered sex, and then someone told him about the clap.

13. iron308 says:

    March 23, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Based on his implied call for more power be invested in government to solve the ‘big’ issues of our day, I think the bitch slapping needs to continue for some time.

14. cranky-d says:

    March 23, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    Naturally these people don’t get is that a multitude of regulations is a feature, not a bug, of big government. That way they can hand out favors to the people they like by looking the other way at times, while still reserving the possibility of enforcing the regulation later when such people fall out of favor.

15. richard mcenroe says:

    March 23, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    The only Thoreau quote I find worth repeating is Emerson’s “Oh, get a job, Henry…”

16. newrouter says:

    March 23, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    what get’s me this idiot could have called the civil eng. dept. and got all the permit info needed.

17. B. Moe says:

    March 23, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    It’s not even a cabin, really. 10 x 15 ft. is a friggin tool shed.

18. Stephanie says:

    March 23, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    10 x 15… its an Outhouse. Who puts a frigging sprinkler system in the outhouse. Oh yeah, the french. Upside down.

19. newrouter says:

    March 23, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    this loser doesn’t understand the stupidity of his statist dogma.

20. zino3 says:

    March 23, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Oh, WOW!

    How surprising.

    Almost everything is a criminal act if you don’t felate the local land barons (i.e. – zoning commissions).

    Google “overcriminalization”, and be prepared to buy a gin (I am quite paranoid, so I substituted a vowel)) and learn how to use it.

21. zino3 says:

    March 23, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    “McGehee posted on 3/23 @ 5:04 pm
    your part of the country has a ban on fracking numbnuts

    Well, somebody better tell the authorities they have a fracking numbnuts at Ithaca College”

    Ithaca is a beautiful place, and butternut Falls is awesome.

    I haven’t been there since the seventies, so I am pretty sure by now you need a permit to climb them.

    There are just too many assholes running this country, and I am about three inches from moving to Sao Paulo. I hope I don’t wait too long, but the memories of the old USA still deter me. I hope I am not one of the Jooooos who thought Crystalnacht was an abberation.

22. zino3 says:

    March 24, 2011 at 12:47 am

    Should that have been a “K”?

23. mojo says:

    March 24, 2011 at 11:03 am

    “Thoreau never mentioned the damned bugs!”
    — Stan Greenburg

24. Pellegri says:

    March 24, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    hahahahahahahahaahahahah oh wat

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