Happy Earth Day! (oy vey)
April 22, 2015 1:11 PM Subscribe
Happy Earth Day! Courtesy of a mad man and a mad man (who just happens to be the father of Serial host Sarah Koenig!).
One person who met Ira Einhorn as a child is the singer Courtney Love. Courtney Love's dad was a member of the Grateful Dead's entourage named Hank Harrison, whom Einhorn originally approached in the hopes he could get the Dead to donate money to Earth Day. Occasionally, you still see Einhorn misidentified as Courtney Love's father in articles and books.
posted by jonp72 at 1:50 PM on April 22, 2015
posted by jonp72 at 1:50 PM on April 22, 2015
There has been some rediculous self-parodying stunts for Earth Day in the past but I think it will be hard to top whenever dreamed up the idea that to urge government action on climate change Bill Nye and Obama should take an Earth Day flight on Air Force One
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 2:04 PM on April 22, 2015
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 2:04 PM on April 22, 2015
That article about Einhorn is pretty weird. Because it's in a Jewish-specific publication, it makes a big deal out of the utterly irrelevant fact that this horrible wife-murdering monster was Jewish. It could easily be reprinted without alteration on a neonazi website.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:32 PM on April 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Sys Rq at 2:32 PM on April 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
I thought it was a neonazi website, from the way it read. Hence, I flagged and moved on.
posted by yhbc at 6:22 PM on April 22, 2015
posted by yhbc at 6:22 PM on April 22, 2015
Timely, in that I was just having my annual rehash of this eye-roller with my CPAC-attending lady teammate/friend from my curling club, and the best counterpoint to the now-standardized nonsense about Einhorn is summed up neatly by this piece in Philadelphia Magazine.
Einhorn was the "co-founder" of Earth Day in the same way that Luke Sissyfag was co-founder of Clinton-era gar rights activism (in other words, not at all). Sometimes, you get douchebags in your movements who claim to have been instrumental in those movements instead of just annoyances, but just because they say it's so doesn't mean it is. This, of course, doesn't stop the right wing brigade from believing they have found the perfect fly in the ointment of the environmental movement and shrilling it all over the place, but just because they say it's so doesn't mean it is.
Meanwhile, everyone seems to forget poor John McConnell.
Sigh.
posted by sonascope at 4:00 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Einhorn was the "co-founder" of Earth Day in the same way that Luke Sissyfag was co-founder of Clinton-era gar rights activism (in other words, not at all). Sometimes, you get douchebags in your movements who claim to have been instrumental in those movements instead of just annoyances, but just because they say it's so doesn't mean it is. This, of course, doesn't stop the right wing brigade from believing they have found the perfect fly in the ointment of the environmental movement and shrilling it all over the place, but just because they say it's so doesn't mean it is.
Meanwhile, everyone seems to forget poor John McConnell.
Sigh.
posted by sonascope at 4:00 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Personally, I believe we are more in need of an Unhappy Earth Day.
posted by Twang at 4:11 AM on April 23, 2015
posted by Twang at 4:11 AM on April 23, 2015
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