Carrying a refillable water bottle is an excellent way of virtue signaling that you care about the environment. It should be pointed out that some of that virtue is lost when the bottle comes wrapped ...Read More
In France they smoke a lot more than in Arizona. And apparently their dogs also smoke more than ours. Photo taken in a tourist area of Lyon, France...Read More
I’ve written a series of evolving posts about Plastic Straws. Here are links to all of them in sequential order. Starting with my first post ten years ago. Straws in Water Straws… Finally ...Read More
Plastic has made poor peoples lives better. It has given them access to containers for liquid that they previously couldn’t afford. Let’s use buckets as an example....Read More
In July I took a shower at a marina in Annapolis Maryland. The shower didn’t have a flow restrictor and it was marvelous. In California the luxury of a full flow shower has been legislated out o...Read More
Republicans don’t like Kale. They’d like to ban it and penalize those who secretly consume it. Democrats think kale is a very good thing. They want everyone to eat some everyday. And would...Read More
I am not a Donald Trump supporter. I never have been but I do understand why many people support him. And here is an example: The people who run Los Angeles County think that voting in multiple langua...Read More
It is pretty remarkable that top management at VW convinced themselves that it was okay to deceive electronically a US Government agency. They must have thought that they could get away with it. Perha...Read More