Flutterby™! :

Okay, everyone else has linked to this, and I'd been ignoring it, but I was going through Arts & Letters Daily and ran across it, and it reminded me of why I despise Utne Reader. The article is about the difficulties of building an environmentally sensitive house, and I was sympathetic as I read through the attempts and difficulties in building a house that used as few old-growth products as possible and was efficient, 'til I ran across the sentence that completely destroyed any sympathy towards the authors I may have had (emphasis mine): "My husband and I and our four children did not expect to live in a simple cabin, as Thoreau did."