OK then, what do you say to the I-got-mine attitude that many of these farmers have when it comes to water use restrictions? Yes, they feed hundreds of millions of people, but is it worth it if they way they do it is unsustainable?

In a way, they are right. It’s a government power grab for the greater good. Private businesses have shown that they can and will not conserve water on the scale that is needed. I’m not going to go into the irrefutable fact that conservation is needed, you’re a smart enough guy, AH, I’ll let you look into that. I know…

I don’t get what revenue has to do with a lack of resource development, if the money isn’t getting spent back into the system that it benefits from. The second thing I don’t understand is how this is an argument at all. WE MAKE MONEY FOR THE STATE! Yeah, sure, but why are you so angry when asked to conserve and maybe…

I don’t get what revenue has to do with a lack of resource development, if the money isn’t getting spent back into the system that it benefits from.

EDIT: Kinja’d. This was a response to something else.

Man you should hear the right-wingers in the foothills complain about this stuff. To them it’s all just one more way for the gubmint to get more control. I was blindsided when a man who drills water wells for a living said to me that we should declare the drought over! I couldn’t believe it, even though he’s also a…

Funny, I was about to commend the author for admitting this is just a bit of data. Think of it as reporting the start of a process.

DEET is the shiz. I spent six weeks camping in Nebraska grassland, which is tick country, and those of us with DEET were secure, and those with the crappy lotions and stuff were picking each other like chimpanzees.

DEET is the shiz. I spent six weeks camping in Nebraska grassland, which is tick country, and those of us with DEET…

I was TA for Geology 101 lab when The Core came out. I got permission to take the students to the movie and have them write a paper on how bad it was. I felt like a successful educator that week.

Back in the day helmets might have obstructed vision, but no modern helmet will do that. I checked back when I started riding, and my eyes wouldn’t rotate side-to-side far enough to see anything but the hint of helmet. Plus, they say you should look with your head anyway.

Get thee a full face!

Evan, you’ve been a highlight of my Gawker-wide reading for a long time, I’m excited to see you change focus a little over at i09.

I had a conversation about my girlfriend’s non-Abarth, turbo 500 (I’m told it’s mechanically the same, but with a single exhaust and some trim differences) yesterday, and the guy kept saying “supercharged”, and I’d say, “turbo.” I gave up after three.

I thought the Winter Soldier kiss was perfect, because she clearly didn’t think beyond the spycraft of it. The directors didn’t have her smile or giggle afterwards or start a slow fall in love with Cap, but instead had her give him crap about it later.

I’ve been buying a shampoo that has mint in it for about a decade now because I like the minty-fresh feeling on my scalp. About three years ago, they changed the label so now my brand/variety is “Head And Shoulders FOR MEN” I had no idea it was a manly thing to do to have a tingly scalp.

If she’s the type who is all, “Who’s that? Why he painted like a piece of HubbaBubba Watermelon? Why is there a Grey Robot Guy, in addition to Red Robot Guy? Why is Captain -America- fighting in Germany and Generic African Locale?” throughout the movie, maybe get some background. If she can roll with it and use…

A Million Ways was exactly what I was expecting, I hope no one thought it was going to be a classic. How about Bone Tomahawk, though? I saw it on a lark and got my money’s worth (of Kurt’s stache).

Let me prompt you: “I liked the cliffhanger, because ______________” I’d love to know why you liked it, because I felt like it was a complete cop-out to delay the payout of six months of build-up. I felt that if they had shown just one swing of the bat from a third-person perspective, and cut the episode, it would…

There is no chance that this is the last time Cruz runs. We’ll get to watch her grow up into an angry pre-teen in 2020, and she’ll be in full teenage hellion mode by 2024!

It makes me happy that there are Falleen and Black Sun gangsters in the new canon (appearances on Clone Wars, comics and Rebels), so the events of Shadows of the Empire might just still be in the canon. Good book, and the game was kind of a milestone for the late-90's Star Wars resurgence.

I’d like to know what the design plan was for the YT series. The outrider cockpit seems to make sense on the Millennium Falcon, since it’s just a little off to the side, with all the cargo area in the center of mass. The Outrider (YT-2000? I’ve decided not to look it up, but I think that’s the one from X-Wing…