I now have to flush my toilet twice to make it work properly, and then still spray the bowl with bleach to make the remnants go away. How about you? This is of course because Americans don't know how to build proper toilets that actually work. No, come to think of it, that's not right -- it's because we don't have enough water to do it the old way. No, come to think of it, that's not right either --- all those drought scare headlines ten years ago were just sucker plays, because here in California they only counted the 10% of water that's allocated for cities, not the 90% allocated for agriculture and industry. If the pols and mediots were forced to tell the truth, you and I could have figured out that moving 2% from aggies to the cities would have increased our urban water supply by 20%! No more drought! Saved by the wonders of arithmetic! We were lied to with malice aforethought. The biggest liars won. But we couldn't figure it out, because the media beat it to death -- and...(Read Full Post)