Amber and I took Bryson to see the Monster Truck Jam today at the giant silver cockroach. (shout out to all the Arlington taxpayers, thanks for the subsidized facility, it is nice!) They make these events fun. The stadium was packed full too, lots of screaming kids. Crazy stuff. In between main events, they even have fun racing action, like 4-wheelers and a junker demolition match. I was blown away by the bombardment of marketing too. Serious work goes into planting desire into the little ones to use dad’s money to buy stupid plastic crap. $15 cotton candy, yup, they had that too.
About 22% of the fresh water on earth is stored below the surface – groundwater. It is pretty easy to pump water out, but it takes a long time to refresh the water in many cases. Also, we compound the problem of recharge because we replace natural insoak areas with impermeable structures like roads and roofs. If that weren’t bad enough, we take the water displaced by these structures and divert it across the land as quick as possible (again preventing insoak) through raised home lots, drainage ditches, and storm drains. If I live to be 70 years old, I predict I’ll die of a young person murdering me out of sheer hate of the stupid things we did to make their life hell.
The National Taxpayers Union ranks members of Congress on their ‘friendlyness’ to taxpayers. Here are their results for 3 of the Republican candidates:
