We know from the last Green Chain post, that Jerry Brown (aka Governor Moonbeam) is a Prophet. Fewer folks know that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth–son of Edmund G. “Pat” Brown–and a stick up his butt. As a prophet (a Jesuit one, at that), he believes that people ought toContinue reading “I Want the Freedom to Pour Hot Coffee on My Balls”
Category Archives: Life in California
Jerry Brown is a Prophet
California’s legislature recommends that standard be 55 gallons per person per day. Keep in mind an average person uses an average of 90 gallons per day. If you are poor and have older water appliances, you will be hit the hardest by this act. For example, older washers will use 40 gallons per load; one load of clothes in the old washing machine and a three-minute shower and you’ve reached your legal limit for water use for the day. Flushing the toilet will have to wait until tomorrow.
California’s Solar Virtue Signal Could Put Housing Out of Reach
The California Energy Commission (CEC) said, “Eureka, we have a refulgently brilliant idea! Let’s require installation of solar panels on new home and low-rise apartment building construction.” Assuming the California Building Standards Commission ratifies the CEC’s proposal (a purported slam-dunk) it will take affect starting January 1, 2020. Less than two years from now. ”TheContinue reading “California’s Solar Virtue Signal Could Put Housing Out of Reach”
California Warns Cell Phone Users
Lately people have been losing their goddamned minds over the repeal of so-called Net Neutrality. The idea seems to be that more government oversight, regulation, nappy wiping are sure to protect us from naughty and not nice corporations who just care about money. Well if more oversight, regulation, and having your bum wiped is yourContinue reading “California Warns Cell Phone Users”
California’s Chemophobic Political Science
Without chemicals life would be damned hard. Alcohol is a chemical, for crying out loud, and without it, many of us find life damned hard. Oh sure, there are other important chemicals too, I suppose. Salt is a chemical and sort of important. Water is a chemical; it’s useful in making beer and wine. OxygenContinue reading “California’s Chemophobic Political Science”
California bureaucrats consider lowering detection limit for purposes of reporting for perchlorate
This is my response to the State Water Resources Control Board regarding their proposal for lowered detection limit for purposes of reporting for perchlorate. (see the previous post for SWRCB’s announcement). The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) seems to appreciate the Precautionary Principle, which says, “When an activity raises threats of harmContinue reading “California bureaucrats consider lowering detection limit for purposes of reporting for perchlorate”
An Open Letter to California’s State Water Resources Control Board (Draft)
I received this in an email on June 16, 2017 and I’ve been mulling it over since then. This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. You are receiving this email because you have requested notification from the State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water (DDW) regarding important updates onContinue reading “An Open Letter to California’s State Water Resources Control Board (Draft)”
Don’t Drink Yellow Tap Water
California, chemaphobia, and the ‘Erin Brockovich chemical’ (Chromium-6) Chromium 6 found in elementary school’s drinking water On March 11, 2016, Coyote Valley Elementary School near Middletown, California (north of San Francisco), started handing out bottled water following reports that the Hidden Valley Lake municipal water supply had levels of chromium-6 higher than were allowed byContinue reading “Don’t Drink Yellow Tap Water”
Clear Lake Jar Test
I have heard that there is only one place that is more difficult to produce drinking water in California than Clear Lake, and that is the Sacramento Delta. Those poor bastards. Clear Lake has never been clear; a fact to which Livingston Stone, a fisheries biologist attested to in an 1873 report: It is aContinue reading “Clear Lake Jar Test”
Water is Free, Isn’t It?
“If people can’t trade water, then they just keep doing the same things that they’ve been doing.” – Reed Watson, executive director of the Property Environment Research Center (PERC) I live in California. You may have heard that it is in a major drought. At the end of the winter in 2015, the snowpack whichContinue reading “Water is Free, Isn’t It?”
Nullius in Verba 