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Following the paths for water

…flushing toilets, 19% for showers and 14% for laundry. Farmers use almost all of the water for irrigation, primarily by flooding fields or spraying it into the air. A full…

Worth a listen

hat tip reader coberly Fresh Air from WHYY IraqIn Iraq, Tactical Theory Put Into Practice Lt. Col. John Nagl wrote the textbook on counterinsurgency — literally. Nagl was part of…

Withdrawal from Iraq in the cards?

Maliki agrees with 16 month Obama plan. Any context to add? And this means what in terms of numbers (is down to 50,000 troops enough?), air bases maintained of the…

"Despite"? Did they mean "Because"?

…sleep a night, and just LOOK at his energy! Let’s make him our CEO!”) And now, with the air hissing out of the balloon of US disposable income, what will…

Infrastructure 2

…replacements for thousands of corroded bridges; new and repaired dams and levees that will not fail; and upgrades to airports and air traffic control. “We need profound changes,” said engineer…

A small note on a small thing of .035%

…like a sneer that such a “trace amount” did not need to be taken seriously. Here are three small points about that: In a cubic millimeter of air, that’s a…

Greenhouse Effect

…windmills (GHG molecules) all spinning and various distances from the floor to the ceiling. In the gym is a huge set of fans (space) that suck much of the air

Soc Sec XXII: What if? Low Cost as Fairy Tale

…his cane in the air yelling “I told them rat bastards!! Right back in Ought Eight!!!” Don’t worry about old Mr. Webb, buy him a glass of beer and he…

Soc Sec XX: Reframing the Trust Fund

…than a rounding error is then current defense budgets, the notion that Social Security funded a fleet of supercarriers vanishes into thin air. If you look at the numbers. One…