Slog - Comments on The End of Country Happiness http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness The BBC reports: Oil prices have risen after emergency talks among the world's top oil powers and leading consuming nations over the weekend ended with no real resolution. US light, sweet crude for August delivery increased by $1.38 a barrel to settle at $136.74 while London Brent crude was up $0.99 at $136.24 a barrel. Those thick and too happity country people over there? It might benefit them greatly to recall (and restore) the role horses had in the pre-automobile world of their humble/honest/hardworking/churchgoing ancestors.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:00:59 -0800 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:02:29 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by John WTF is he doing to that horse?

]]> John http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057706 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057706 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:36:37 -0800 Comment by boonimusprime I don't know, but I hope the horse kicks him in the balls. Looks like it is ready to do so, anyway.

]]> boonimusprime http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057712 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057712 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:42:36 -0800 Comment by Hey wait What does it cost to feed a horse?

And then there is the matter of all that horse shit in the streets (if everyone is riding a horse).

]]> Hey wait http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057717 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057717 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:44:30 -0800 Comment by jameyb is that a still from 'Zoo'?

]]> jameyb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057723 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:49:06 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Most people couldn't afford horses. Even mules were pretty expensive back then.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057733 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:25 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo You do understand that the food you eat and the wine you drink is produced in the country and transported to your local store by the means of some sort of fossil-fuel-powered conveyance, right?

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057737 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057737 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:56:22 -0800 Comment by Hates Charles Mudede Yeah, or else they'll just increase the cost of the food that they grow and you pay for.

And since when has the American farmer had a happy life?

]]> Hates Charles Mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057742 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057742 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:57:36 -0800 Comment by tiffany charles,

you are such a stupid fuckrag. i hate when i accidentally read your posts.

]]> tiffany http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057747 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:59:52 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @6 - Actually, Canada already has done experiments on wind-power fuel cell engines for trains, which are far more efficient than diesel engines, flaminggbanjo, so that's not technically true.

And with plug-in hybrids getting around 100 mpg and most of our region having cheap electricity from wind, solar, and hydro - it definitely won't be true for much longer.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057763 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:06:11 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo W.I.S. : I think what you mean is it technically is true, unless those wind-powered trains you speak of are currently in operation, having replaced the fossil-fuel-powered trains and trucks that currently transport food from producer to consumer.

But it's a great idea, nevertheless.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057775 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:10:59 -0800 Comment by ahava That photo disturbs my innards.

]]> ahava http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057778 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:12:03 -0800 Comment by Algernon Sculptor David Černư has been there and done that: http://img.radio.cz/pictures/umeni/cerny_vaclav_lucernax.jpg

]]> Algernon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057784 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057784 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:17:19 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave will, an overhead line would be more efficient than a fuel cell.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057788 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057788 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:20:35 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave also, for trains having a line form of electricity would be more feasible because train trips are generally point a to point b trips, instead of the multifaceted trips of cars.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057794 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057794 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:25:43 -0800 Comment by Vince Give it up people. There's too many of you. That's the real problem. Everything else is just tinking around the edges.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057810 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057810 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @10 - they built them, so they exist.

Mind you, that was around 2004 ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057814 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057814 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:40:41 -0800 Comment by Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist Over where? Ocala, Florida? Does being intentionally opaque in references give you kicks? A link finally gets put in a charles post and it, unsurprisingly, has nothing to do with the post itself? Oh, almost forgot, do you hope that those "Happity" (ps WTF is happity??) people in Oklahoma go back to horse-drawn buggies, because they may have a blind spot and may accidentally run over a "relative" that may be different than those people? And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

]]> Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057815 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:41:46 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle .... wow, CMIALR, you make my writing style look great ....

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057888 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:06:34 -0800 Comment by mj @17
Nothing Charles has ever written is near as bad as using the phrase, " And no, I don't feel like letting it go" over and over again!

]]> mj http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1057916 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:31:06 -0800 Comment by CP Not just poo.

Annoying things that went away and made cities nicer when cars replaced horses:

1) pee
2) poo
3) corpses rotting in street (really)
4) noise - yes, steel-shod hooves on cobblestones made quite a racket, compared to cars
5) having to put on an onion on your belt when you rode to Shelbyville, which was the style at the time

We all know what down sides cars have, of course.

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1058001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1058001 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:36:51 -0800 Comment by move along 17, 19: Somebody else needs to let it go...

Has the Amanda Knox story completely dried up? No Police Beat II?

]]> move along http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1058021 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1058021 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:12:52 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster I can't rememeber the last time that horse invited me over for a cup of coffee. Why must that horse treat me so disrespectfully?

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1058054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_end_of_country_happiness#c1058054 Money Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:04:57 -0800 Comment by Lydia Condescending AND totally out of touch with reality. Good one!

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