mattesnakes

I think it's worth mentioning that recycling and reusing sewage water still isn't being done in most of California, and is a much more sensible and environmentally sustainable practice than desalinization. There's too much talk about desal and not enough about recycling.

EDIT: Hey look, it's my cake day.

What are your thoughts on the recent debate over Foxconn? Wired just ran a lengthy piece defending the factory's practices. Having spent so much time in China, do see the country's cheap manufacturing base as serving the global good, or something pernicious whose merit is propagated by the neoliberal media consensus?

Do you live in China and/or Mexico?