I don't think so...

This is not a Truth or Fiction post (though I suppose it could be, given the circumstances). I just felt the need to blog.

At work, I have been labelled the Tree-Hugger (as well as the Deerslayer). Now, I am really not an ultra-radical liberal; not at all. It is only that I think trees are far more beautiful than high-rises. What's wrong with that, I ask you? Would you rather see a forest or a tract of houses called Sleepy Hollow? (Yes, there actually is a housing tract here called that and I think it has very disturbing connotations...LOL, but I digress...)

OK, so here is the reason for my post today. On a news special the other day, I heard that we have more acres of forest today than we had in, I think it was, 1920. My left eyebrow immediately and sceptically winged its way toward the heavens.

"Oh, really," I said sarcastically to news anchor John Stossel (I am not known for my witty repartee).

I don't think that what Mister Stossel was saying is true. Not in my area of the world anyway. If it is true, the forests he was praising must be just-planted forests consisting of three-inch-tall trees that are not environmentally helpful.

Or if Mister Stossel is right, was National Geographic's recent reporting of the ever-widening hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica (now the size of the continental US) totally misguided and misinformed? Hmm, I don't think so.

What do y'all think?