Attention Tree Huggers: this is why nobody takes you serioulsy

I know I sometimes come off as a gun-toting conservative neanderthal, but I'm actually pretty "green" for all my Club For Growth credentials. See, I lived in Beijing for six months last year, and I tremble in fear at the thought of America turning into the environmental apocalypse that is China.

I'm not saying I compost shit, just that I'm pretty careful about turning lights off, willing to walk an extra 50 steps to put a bottle in the recycling bin rather than the garbage can, bring reusable bags to the grocery store more often than not, and am genuinely interested in alternative energy sources.

But as someone closer to middle America than most self-described greenies, I have the benefit of better perspective of the environmental movement than many. And let me tell you: there are a lot of reasons nobody in the middle takes the granola crowd seriously.

Here's just one little example that always stands out to me. Besides RealClearPolitics, the blog I check most every day for news is Huffington Post (again, I'm clearly no crazy, Glenn-Beck-worshipping right winger here). And like any good bastion of liberalism, HuffPost has an entire "Green" section of its website.

And here's where it gets ridiculous. Take a look at some of the headlines from the "Green" section:

"13 Cutest Animals Falling Asleep (VIDEO)"
"PHOTOS: Children Playing in Spring Gardens"
"PHOTOS: The Wild World of Dumpster Diving"
"Salamander Facing Extinction Due to E-Commerce!?!"
"YES! NYC Lifts Ban on Beekeeping"
"6 Green Ways to Celebrate DC's Cherry Blossom Festival"
"WATCH: Gorilla Charges National Geographic Crew"

And that's just one random day - often there are MUCH worse ones. Though cute animals falling asleep sure is worthless in a section of HuffPost that's supposed to be about how humans are precipitating the worst climatic disaster on the planet's species since a fucking asteroid killed the dinosaurs. But yeah, baby animals sure are cute when they fall asleep!