This is my first blog over here. I’ve been blogging for about four years now but on Livejournal. I still like the other place but I needed something new; mostly to keep myself sane. Livejournal is good for fandom things and for screwing around, but I wanted something a little more mature. I’m not sure how mature this place is but I figure I’ll figure that out while I go.
There are still a few things I need to learn over here, and I need to do a profile. I’ve never been good at doing profiles. We shall see how it comes out.
Today was the Iowa 250 in Newton, Iowa. Corn 250 to be exact. They’re really playing to the ethanol craze, yet fail to mention numerous ethanol plants in Iowa and Minnesota aren’t opening due to the market. In Hartley, Iowa – a town about 40 miles from me – they stopped building the ethanol plant and are “waiting”. Waiting for what, I don’t know. And the ethanol plant that was built about 15 miles from here won’t be opening on schedule.
This makes me happy.
Yes, I know we need to burn cleaner fuels and stop depending so much on foreign oil, but ethanol is bad for the environment. According to a recent Time article, acres and acres of rainforests are being cut down in Brazil in order to make way for corn fields. Ethanol was supposed to protect our environment, yet it’s destroying it too.
I just read the news of George Carlin’s passing. How sad. 
