The Land the Times Forgot
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Plastic, plastic, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
Ever wonder why water in bottles has an expiration date? It’s the plastic. It does bad things as it dissolves. Heard John and Ken talking about it this afternoon, while discussing emergency earthquake supplies. Not only do you have to keep checking the batteries and canned goods – should you go the nervous ant-like way of even having earthquake supplies – and I’m not saying which way I roll, cause maybe I’m a selfish ant – you gotta keep changing the water, too. Of course, this doesn’t concern the DWP, or the City of LA, or H. David Nahai, or Mayor V., as proven by the tons of HDPE plastic…
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Translator needed for LA Times Opinion piece on chickens.
UPDATED: here. Ooh, good, I thought. An opinion on chickens. This is something I might want to read understand. Photo credit: Compassion Over Killing. I appreciate the humane way the HSUS treats photographers, too, by giving them proper credit. Chicken Run, by Julia Olmstead, is about an initiative by the Humane Society to outlaw battery cages for farm animals. If we’re going to eat eggs, I think the chickens that lay them should be able to stretch their wings, stand up and turn around, and not be caged. So I buy cage-free eggs, and I’m not alone. Demand for these eggs has outpaced supply in the last few years. So…
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The LA Times feels sorry for the Avenues gang.
One of my more popular posts is my April post on how the Times covered the Avenues gang: The LA Times has a secret crush on the Avenues gang! A lot of looky-loos have been stopping by today, too, of course, because the Avenues and Drew Street gangs are on the front page again, and this time they’re not such heroes. The LAPD cracked down and arrested 28 of those poor guys. Here’s the Times this time: Heavily armed police and federal agents stormed into a Glassell Park neighborhood Wednesday morning to wrest control away from a street gang — and loyalists with deep family ties to its members —…
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To catch a thief.
On April 16th my neighbor had her catalytic converter stolen out of her SUV. (I had heard the loud roar when it started up, and this told me why.) I told another friend who has 2 SUVs (and it’s just her and her husband. Don’t ask.), and she said she had read in a Long Beach paper that it’s because of platinum inside the converter. My neighbor didn’t know what to do. She has one car parked inside our complex, but has to park the SUV on the street. If she got a new cc, then that one, too, would be stolen. She compared prices, and decided the one that…
