Consumerist is running an hilarious post about the number of pharmaceutical grade medicines mixed in your ‘treated’ drinking water. My favorite is the final question and answer:

This Sucks. What Is The Government Doing?
Ah yes, the government. Maybe they can offer an encouraging and meaningful response? Let’s turn for reassurance to Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA’s assistant administrator for water:

“We recognize it is a growing concern and we’re taking it very seriously.”

@#$%!

-Consumerist

A funny way to deliver not so encouraging news.

In Seoul Korea the ancient city gate, that has been around for 600 hundred years, was destroyed possibly by arson. It is always sad to see history removed from future generations such as this. I will one day take my kiddos to see the land where my mother was born and raised. They will experience the rich history of their Korean heritage. It will be a shame that this national treasure will not be part of their enrichment.

There is a study out there that claims that though the use of biofuels has benefits that will help us pull the crude oil drip that is firmly attached to the arteries of the world, clearing the land for such crops will actually harm the ecosystem more than traditional fossil fuels. It seems that in order to generate the crops, we will need to plow land that is removing carbon dioxide now, like the rain forests. Like the old saying goes, there are consequences to everything you do, no matter how good nature the intentions were.

I meant to post this yesterday but was too busy to do so. It seems a Canadian oil company has the rights to drill for oil in the Baca county. So what, right? Well since I use to work at Colorado College, this triggered some personal interest. You see, CC has a remote campus down in the Baca county that is not that far from the proposed drilling.

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BBC is reporting about a little girl that survived a plane crash in the jungles of Panama. Though tragic my interest was piqued for other reasons. I did not know Panama, Keyla’s home, had a volcano. My next visit to my in-laws will include a trip to Volcán de Chiriqui but not by air.