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POPSHow Many Gallons of Water Does it Take to Make... Violence over water rights is already breaking out in regions of the world where water is scarce. Along with political tensions--and maybe wars--we're going to see food production affected, and more people flat out hungry and thirsty. And it's all because we're simply using too much water.
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POPSRiots in London What terrible reporting. This is nothing more than a Saturday afternoon stroll. It's tame compared to the booze fuelled nights in every British town and village since Labour took a no-nonesense attitude towards the decline of public behaviour (sic). Yes. That was tongue in cheek.
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POPSPresidential Address Drinking Game! # “Resolve.” — Take a shot. # Camera stops on various “opposition” figures such as Cantor: If you’re male, do a line of meth. # “Discipline.” — Take a very careful shot. # Camera stops on Hero Pilot “Andrew” Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III: Women and children take a drink, men go outside and have a smoke. # “Breaking ground.” — One manly gulp. # “Infrastructure.” — Two sips and check the fridge for supplies. # Any mention of the Taliban: Put a “burqa” (pillowcase) over the heads of any women and gaily drink with your male friends. # “Aggressive action.” — Chug a beer or glass of wine. # Any variation of “best days are ahead.” — Finish all the booze in the house, weep.
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POPSShould Marijuana Ban Go Up in Smoke?
Although this is considered a 'back burner,' issue in the more real world of lying to lead a nation into false wars or the SuperRich & Wall St. speculators ripping off untold trillions the futility and hyprocracy of this always comes around again and again. The prime illegal use of drugs is of prescription drugs. One of the drugs that does the most damage to self and society is booze. The War on Weed is a failure, will always be a failure, and it's main use thus far appears to be to give permission for USA covert wars in Central and South America and put hundreds of thousands of those who might tend to be domestic 'social dissidents,' in jail. Now, too, it's being added to one of the reasons to kill people in Afghanistan; gotta stop them from growing drugs. If anyone is seriously interested in reducing interest in drugs then all drug advertising (pot or pills or booze, etc.) should be banned from TV. If you want to stop drug abuse stop promoting drug use. Try that 'D
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POPSBally's Shows It's No Gamble This is a great technology that Betsy wrote about a while back. It's a Vegas-based "gaming" maker of the gambling kind. Just goes to show that gambling, like booze, is a business good in both good times and bad.
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POPSAlcoholism: What you might not knowze Much of that risk is inherited. Studies show that as much as 60 percent of the risk of alcohol-use disorders is genetic, said Dr. Marc Schuckit, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the alcohol and drug treatment program at the Veterans Affairs-San Diego Healthcare System, who wrote the Lancet article
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POPSNT alcoholics 'using stimulus cash to buy booze' What is an alcoholic going to spend any money on? Not reported is that obese people were seen buying food, children buying toys, gamblers were gambling and so on ad nausium. (The "stimulus" money was a $1000 for pensioners, carers, per child in a family.) The do-gooders were wanting to write the shopping lists or hand out vouchers.
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