And honestly I think there is a world of difference between a 4 year old and a tween.

Isn't that a rooster? Now this is a chick car!

Ugh. I had the same thing on a flight. Ten or eleven year old. When I turned and said, "Please stop kicking my seat," the father lit into me about how I couldn't tell his kid what to do and if I had a problem I could take it up with him. The mother screeched "You people have no idea how difficult it is to keep a child…

Send me a screen shot of all those stories you read in the last two weeks then tough guy. And you must be so cool I bet you have a lot of friends. LOL. How did you find all those stories at least tell me that.

We will probably drink pee water first. It costs about 1/2 as much as desal.

FWIW, the hoses are probably high-pressure. Not a lot of water. If they are using gray water (as many municipalities are) it isn't stuff you would be drinking anyway.

FWIW, most OC landscape irragation water for municipal, corporate and multifamily dwellings comes from filtered gray water. It would be going down the drain anyway.

A sampling of the incentive programs out there. Some of the sites have before and after pictures of some of the projects. IMO, most of the homes look better with the lawns gone.

Or astro-turf the parks. Or used pulverized granite. Or used recycled tire mulch. Or anything but grass that was never intended to grow in this environment. SoCal is not frackin rainy, moldy old England, where the whole cultivated manicured lawn fetish started.

My back yard. It's a dust bowl now.

What is 4 hours away? NV? NM? You realize everything west of the Rockies is experiencing extreme drought, right? It is all part of the same water shed. If these trucks aren't filling up east of the Rockies they are still directly contributing to the water crisis as they are still using the same water used in the…

So others can get the reference:

Thanks for the confirmation. I'm drawing on hazy recollections of what I read more years ago than I care to divulge. You seem far better read than I. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm not familiar with Zinn or Harman - you have inspired me to check them out.

Sit down, Antipodes!

You mean all of Gaul isn't divided into three parts?

Glad to see Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch have kept up that fine disinformation, divide-and-conquer tradition. /s

I don't live in the Bay Area, but if it is anything like SoCal even a five minute stunt like that blocking two freeways would have ripple effects for hours. Also, if the freeway completely clogged, other a-holes would try to go around on the shoulders keeping CHP from getting through. No way they would respond in 5…

Bingo! Same here. For a bunch of reasons. But subjecting me to a medical experiment without my consent was the last straw. Sounds like FB learned nothing from the experience and is still trying to manipulate people's emotions.

You know you grew up in the 80's if:

Just the word. According to Wikipedia (so it must be true) It was a pickled fish sauce in China. So the idea of a condiment sauce came from China, but the recipe using tomatoes originated in the States in the early 1800s.