At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

Blood is not destiny.

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.