Smart guy writes intelligent, reflective letter to the editor
When we last left our local periodical, the Herald Journal was taking nominations for a Resident of the Year award, and the good people of Logan, America were using the opportunity to nominate their child’s dance instructor. Earlier this week, the HJ’s Letters to the Editor section provided a bully pulpit for a missive on air quality which simply screamed to be re-run on the pages of The Truant, that its author might be lashed and ridiculed.
Not Fazed by Red Air Days
Well it’s getting to be that time of year again, and no I’m not talking about another New Year, I’m talking about the lovely inversions.
We have had a couple red air days this winter season, so people are panicking. But what they don’t realize is how many days this year were not red?
Let’s see… every day of the spring, summer and fall? Trick question. No one can know that, it’s like slamming a revolving door.
A few weeks ago all we heard on the news was how Logan’s air was the worst in the nation. How do they figure that? I spoke to a co-worker in New York who said it was snowing black because of how bad the air is.
Maybe your colleague in New York is a GODDAM RACIST.
I also would like to know how can it be a red air day and be snowing?
Either it’s a documented miracle or God just forgot to check with Cache Valley before pouring out the snow, dude, who knows?
Ya know, I will just speak from the heart for a moment.
He’s doing schtick! Now he’s doing his Sarah Palin voice! This is great!
I am so tired of people, whether it be some politician, air quality engineer
, parents of the young children next door,
or some other random person, telling me what I can and can’t do.
If I want to go snowmobiling, guess what, I will. If I want to ride my ATV in the woods, guess what, I will.
If I want to drink apple juice out of my special farm animal sippy cup, guess what? I will. And if apple juice and the farm animal sippy cup are withheld, guess what? I will throw a tantrum and scream myself hoarse.
We are always being told we shouldn’t drive on red air days, well guess what? Some of us have a job we need to be to, and last time I checked the CVTD is still running all of its routes on red air days.
Not to get bogged down here, but… Jesus Christ, this is a bad idea… it is possible to ride a bicycle, walk, skateboard or carpool to work. And we think you are missing the point of mass transit.
City, county and state workers are still operating backhoes, tractors, snowblowers, driving vehicles and operating “carbon emitting objects.”
The inversion is going to come and go whether we reduce driving, stay inside or stop using wood-burning stoves.
The inversion does indeed come and go, it’s the nature of living in a valley. But the quality of the air trapped is directly affected by people’s actions. The winter air in Logan didn’t become the worst in the land until the population boomed.
So I say get over it, and stop telling us what to do.
Are the readers of the HJ serving as proxies for an overbearing relative here?
Mother Nature is taking care of the problem probably as we speak. I’m sure a storm will be coming off the coast soon and knocking this horrible air out of the valley soon enough.
Your servant,
Thomas Paine
/JK
Zane Petersen
Lewiston
holy shit, I never even thought of that. it’d be like forcing myself to smoke an entire pack of cigarettes at once. I agree though, let’s test this out on zane. as long as death comes in the form of cancer years later I’m down with that. it’s what’s happening to me anyway.
I wonder if we could get this guy to suck on his tailpipe for ten minutes to convince us he isn’t affecting the air quality. Zane might be intelligent enough to pull this kind of ‘demonstration’ off…
This guy has a point. If the government is going to run their vehicles to enhance or expand our infrastructure while simultaneously providing much needed jobs in this economy, then fuck it, I’m letting my fleet of Hummers idle all goddamn day. why? because I want to, it’s cold outside. Fuck the environment and the people too weak to handle having the worst air quality in the U.S. right now.
survival of the fittest bitches.