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To: DMaA who wrote (204192)	4/25/2007 8:20:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793994

It would be cruel to parody people who care about the issue as such fanatics that they would try clean their behinds with one square of paper and their index finger, and think that that would save the world. If there were such people and they were known to be psychologically fragile, I would agree with you. But we don't know that there's anyone alive who is so far out there as to be committed to the notion that so drastically reducing the use of toilet paper or using "dining sleeves" will "save Our Mother" let alone that a significant subset of them are fragile enough to be damaged by being teased about it. Perhaps you have generalized your attitude towards environmentalists to the point that you think they're all that daft but there are more than enough merely half-daft measures in their litany to effectively preclude such extremes.

To: DMaA who wrote (204192)	4/27/2007 9:00:55 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793994

Not trying to resurrect the topic of Sheryl Crow but I happened upon this comment this morning and thought immediately of you. "The best satire comes from either a real love of what's being satirized (Young Frankenstein), or the need to twist real anger and frustration into something comedic (Blazing Saddles, The Daily Show)." The article from which it comes has nothing to do with Crow or the issue we were discussing but it points out that you can poke at something or someone either out of love or hate. It's at least theoretically possible that she did a "parody [of] people who care about the issue" out of love. tvsquad.com would try clean their behinds with one square of paper Rereading your post I picked up on something on which I'll comment because of my interest in the way these stories get embellished to make the object seem even more ridiculous. For the job of cleaning one's behind she offered two or three squares, not just one. And I've noticed others adding that the one square was one ply, another exaggeration. Who uses one ply toilet paper? Surely not Crow. I find it interesting that folks feel the need to take what was already a pretty outrageous statement, if serious, and make it even more so, like vanilla outrageous just isn't enough to adequately demonize.