Gullible Americans

always thought you had to drink the bottled water in Eutopia. Then again, my consort and I got very sick in a chateau in the Loire after drinking the tap stuff no one else did. 

Drink up.

It's good for someone. Attaturk's motto "in like douchebags, out like colostomy bags" gets truer every day. 

Let it flow

Starbucks in hot water with the green movement. (I'm helping the tabs w/the heds.) 

Another reason

to drink wine.

Hurtling

toward extinction. Story's a bit of a mess, but it ends with a bang. (TomDispatch's advice for reading the NYTimes always holds: Start with the last three grafs.) 

Still, as if we should talk . . . 

Water or not

At least the archaeologists from other planets will have a gorgeous record of how this one went down. 

My outrage meter

has hit the WTF level so many times it must be broken. The Big Dick's old company has done so much evil while taking billions to "support" the troops you would think it can't get any worse. But you'd be wrong. I can't get into our NYTimes account to link the full story, but I give them credit for tucking the Names of the Dead into the story, under the food shot, in the dead-trees edition: 4,093 identified. Go Fuck Yourself must really believe there are shopping malls in hell.

Fountains of pain

For all the horrors of my childhood, I did grow up drinking artesian well water. Two years ago I met a hydrogeologist from out my way who said the water coming out of the ground around Tucson was hot to the touch because the wells had to be drilled so deep. And now it's even worse: "Arizona is out: It now imports all of its drinking water." How about a few more golf courses, or swimming pools, in a region where swamp coolers always outperformed air conditioners?

Got Evian?

Protecting water from sunlight?

And take a look at what has happened to the lake where we went camping as kids. Then check out the pools and golf courses. . .

Thirsty?

No rain in Spain, either. 

Thinking out of the bottle

Why do I think something this intelligent would take five years to plan in Manhattan and one week in Albany to shoot down? Then again, are there even 12 working water fountains in this borough anymore? We can't even get these. (Filched from Tengrain.)