Is this the Biden effect?
Plastic Recycling
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
- Straw Math
- Where did the Turtle get the Plastic Straw
- How Heather improves the Environment
- Plastic for the Poor
- The Ice Bucket Challenge for Straws
Let me know what you think.
The Limits of Power
What is the limit on the government’s power to make you do things for your own good?
Plastic for the Poor
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. Continue reading “Plastic for the Poor”
Full Flow Showers in California
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 of existence. It sounds like an opportunity to me. Continue reading “Full Flow Showers in California”
Kale Explains Everything
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 like to pass legislation to subsidize kale farmers and pay for a massive advertising campaign promoting kale.
Continue reading “Kale Explains Everything”
Why Trump Might Win
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 languages is a good thing as this sticker shows. Many ordinary people feel that if we are going to have a successful country we all need to be speaking the same language. Trump speaks for them. Continue reading “Why Trump Might Win”
Volkswagen Lies
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.
Perhaps they thought that they were in good company since everyone was doing it. Or they they had been led to believe that it is okay to lie to governments and the public if your intentions are pure. How did they start to believe this? Well there are lots of cases of companies colluding with the government to lie to the public.
Here are a few examples:
- Those expensive energy saving light bulbs don’t last 2000 hours no matter what the EPA lets them say.
- Have you ever had a car that actually got the MPG the EPA tests say?
- Does State Lottery money actually go to schools?
- Why do I have to take shorter showers because of the water crisis but farmers who use 85% of the water can still get it almost free?
- Portion size in nutrition labeling is fiction.
Ineptocracy
A useful new word.
Ineptocracy
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Drought Killer
It is ironic that one part of the government is spending money giving people incentives to rip out their lawns while another part of the government is spending a lot of money on an TV ad campaign encouraging people to go to parks.
Yesterday morning I witnessed the installation of an artificial lawn in the front yard of a house in East Pasadena. Like many artificial things it is skin crawlingly ugly. Yes it will save water in the short run and it will forever make these peoples lives a bit more soulless. Lawns are living things they breathe, they cool, they smell. Plastic lawns do none of these. And there existence is a reminder of how foolish some people can be. We don’t need a law against plastic lawns but we do need a public outcry that lets people know that “plastic lawn” is an oxymoron. And if they put one in they are the second half of the word.