by David Safier In an attempt to cure some of my ignorance, I did a google search on water desalination (desalinization, desalinisation) and found an Economist article from June, 2008. It has lots of excellent technical information. The most important fact in terms of answering my question — Why isn't desalination coupled with the production … Read more
by David Safier This could be viewed as a cry for help — scientific help, that is. Advertisers as well as health food advocates the world round sing the praises of sea salt over . . . not sea salt,wherever that comes from. One of the problems with desalination of sea water (also called "desalinization" … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Remember how, during his big prime-time speech last month, Lousiana's Republican governor Bobby Jindal, in addition to making stuff up about what he did during Hurricane Katrina, also found time to mock the Obama administration for "wasteful spending" in the stimulus bill, including … $140 million for something called “volcano monitoring.” Instead … Read more
by David Safier Where does the Goldwater Institute go for inspiration on the issues of taxation and the cutting government spending? Grover Norquist. That's right. The same Grover Norquist who gave us this bit of wisdom: My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In a Truthout Perspective commentary, author Ravi Batra exposes Saint Ronnie Reagan for what he truly was, a Robin Hood in reverse Socialist who redistributed wealth from the poor and middle class to the most affluent Americans. Reagan: The Great American Socialist Socialism has been much in the news for some months. … Read more