It's not about immigration.
It's about violence on and near the border
and a lot of other places. Arizona is just one of many.

The ONLY way to stop all this stupid violence is to END PROHIBITION.
It worked in Chicago. It will work in Juarez the same way.

And by ending prohibition I mean that the whole drug thing should be considered a public health problem, which it is already, and not a crime thing. Making drugs illegal results in
(1) making everyone who has anything to do with drugs a criminal, which is pointless, and
(2) putting all the controls in the hands of the criminals.

We on the "right side" of the law are ALWAYS playing catch-up and we always will. Decriminalize drugs and regulate just like with alcohol and tobacco. Which by the way are actually bigger problems, or would be if drugs were left alone.

A few of my little "points" for you:
1. Tobacco addiction is harder to shake than opiate addiction. I've known junkies who have quit for years at a time but who are totally unable to get off of cigarettes at all.
2. Drunks on the road is, as you know, a Bad Thing. Pot smokers, on the other hand, if they are too stoned to drive, will pull over and then just sit there and laugh.
3. Cokeheads sit around racking their brains to find some reason to not spend their last nickel on coke. And they can't come up with one. If if it was legal, then at least whole family fortunes or businesses wouldn't be going up their noses.
4. Meth is plentiful because of the economics. If it were not illegal there would not be large amounts of money to be made, and therefore no incentive to risk getting oneself burnt to a crisp cooking up the damned stuff.
5. Were it not for hemp, we wouldn't be sitting here in the "New World" blogging because there would have been no canvas (cannabis) or rope for the big ships, but nobody would have noticed because the ships would not have existed. On the bright side, there would not be a gazillion stupid people in Arizona.

Google "williams audubon hemp" (don't include the quotes) for the world's best history of the prohibition of drugs.

Recycling the Deck Chairs
So you think you're actually doing something?
You're not.

If you want to start doing something to save the planet, STOP BUYING CRAP.

April is Colombia to Hell in a Handbasket Month
Sorry it's a little late for getting the publicity out.

Clam and Eggs — who knew?
(If we had any aracana eggs it could be Green Eggs and Clam)
I woke up this morning thinking about cooking clams. We had a can of clams in the cupboard for a very long time. So I drained the stuff and fried it in butter. Not having done this before, I put it alongside the egg dish instead of in it, but next time it'll go in. We get tired of pig meat, and now there's an alternative.

Tracker, schmacker
Why bother with complicated solar trackers?
Since there is a finite life to solar panels, why not swap out the complexities of making, installing, and maintaining trackers for the extended life of solar panels by not having them always facing the sun full on? Buy a few more panels and put them in an arc, where some are facing the morning sun, some midday, some afternoon. Since (I assume) the life is proportional to the electrical output over time (measured in coulombs) ... one of many things I oughta look up to see if I'm all wet.