This 2009 vid sums up my opinion of the pointless inanity of “Earth Day.”
The first Earth Day, in 1970, was named after the best Cat Woman in the schlocky Batman TV series, Eartha Kitt. Yeah, Julie Newmar was hot, but Eartha was somehow hotter. On that day, the hippies and environmentals collided, and debated endlessly on the topic of global cooling vs. global warming, and what to do about it. Since the data available at that time showed a cooling trend, they chose global warming after a coin flip. Eartha won the toss. She was arguably hotter. “Eartha Day” was misspelled in a Washington Post article, and “Earth Day” was born. [via]
That description was part of a hoax I was invited to assist with several years ago – classic sockpuppetry of the best kind, presented for conspicuous consumption on The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: Earth Day, hoax, Overnight Open Thread, Video
