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Jagger, Richards and Steinberg on the California water bond
California state senator Darrel Steinberg on the California water bond: In the water world, you can’t always get everything you want, but there’s a whole lot in this bond that California needs. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on (I think) taking a lot of drugs and getting laid: You can’t always get what you want …
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The Colorado River is no one thing, episode XXVI
Laughlin, Nevada: The river is the focal point — and reason behind — the town’s existence. Without it there would be no casinos. During the summer months, the river is more of a factor in the Laughlin experience than at any other time of year. The all-too-easy-to-adopt thought that Laughlin is too hot in the …
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Grover explains how to solve the Colorado River’s problems
Grover’s talking here about raisins, but I think it generalizes.
Test
Just testing out a new plugin. Nothing to see here, move along.
At Costco, piles of Piketty
The Four Corners is a complicated place
The Four Corners is a very big, very arid, and very complicated place.
Someone built this a long time ago
Back from Mesa Verde and filing my pictures, there is this: More impressive to me, in some ways, than the big stuff. Eight centuries ago, some people went to a lot of trouble to climb up to that upper alcove and build a little wall. Maybe they built more. I don’t know.
Aztec Motel
In Albuquerque, we frequently tear down our old Route 66 motels, but keep their signs:
CLEAN ARGE R OO MS
The Desert Sun Motel is frozen at $19.95 a night (and up): CLEAN ARGE R OO MS $19/95& UP FREE COF EE CABLE TV HBO ESP VACANCY It looks like a project stalled in mid-renovation, though it’s hard to see how this could have ended well if the owners had continued to spend money. It’s …