Hmm....

Yup. I think I figured out your problem here: the city of LA decided that the most important aspect of their major water infrastructure project is BRANDING.

But a corner worker at the track wound up with a fairly nice new house out of the deal.

How about Golden Colorado, home to Clear Creek and Coors Brewing?

The mine was already leaking toxic crap out into local creeks and the folks onsite were attempting to mitigate it. Turns out it was worse than originally thought (which also means it was most likely not just leaking into the surface-waters nearby but also leaching into the ground water, too) and their bore to get into…

It’s an “extremely tall isolated mountain.” on a Dwarf Planet:

Yeah, next the US’ll try to blame ‘em for shooting down a civilian airliner full of innocent people in the Ukraine. Oh, wait...

Missed the forest for the trees, there, pardner.

The one that flows thru Texas is also known as Town Lake in Austin (now officially called Ladybird Lake).

From the Durango Herald article linked above:

If EPA hadn’t required that team to try to remediate the already occurring leak, it would have built up a bit further then burst anyway.

SYTLE GUIDE FIGHT!!!!!

Seeing as he was trying to stop the birth of Ed Furlong, I think it’s acceptable behavior.

You prefer The Destroyer?

That’s not a Filipino Ranger; THIS is a Filipino Ranger:

The appropriate way to slice a bagel is to hold it carefully in one hand, then lift the lid to the trashcan with the other and drop it in then go make some toast.

I’d pay good money to see some squid on a ‘busa with ape-hangers, though.

By “nasty aspects of the work that never display on TV you mean the lab coffe pot, right?

They have to engineer dummies now? Back in my day dummies just happened without any planning or design at all.

We could train housecats to hunt and kill the stupid feral horses that are infesting the Southwest. I can just picture hundreds of little kitties storming across an arroyo then leaping upon and dragging down a pinto pony.