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From Ecosexuals to Ecobabes?

Well, since we have ecosexuals, how long was it going to take before we got ecobabes?

The Climate Protection Campaign of Sonoma County produced its own fund-raising calendar featuring well-photographed women in various diaphanous poses. However, as you might predict, some earnest people Are Not Amused:

Titillating as it is, the calendar has turned off some environmentalists. The Northcoast Environmental Center, based in the Humboldt County town of Arcata, refused to display the calendars in its popular eco-boutique. "I felt it was objectifying women and using their bodies to make money," said Alisha Clompus, 26, an artist and anthropologist who is office manager for the Northcoast center. "It’s like making money off another form of oppression."

As Christopher Buckley said at dinner the other night, the trouble with trying to write satire these days is that you have to compete with the newspapers. And the newspapers are winning.

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Tom Lehrer (The Vatican Rag, The Masochism Tango) said he stopped performing his satirical songs because the real news made them unnecessary.

As I recall, the proximate event that made Lehrer give up his act was Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize. In that case, you’d have thought Jimmy Carter winning the Nobel would have brought him back out of retirement.

I agree with Buckley; he could write a follow-up to his hit novel called "Thank You for Animating" and cast William Macy
as Michael Medved.

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