Another voice from California here. When I was in high school in the late fifties, the smog was so bad that going into the pool gave us such a double whammy of smog and chlorine many of us got sick. Terrible headaches were common. We lived east of LA, and the prevailing winds blew all the smog our way, where it made its home, held by the surrounding hills. Just some more history to show why we work so hard to clean things up. After all, you can't beat the climate, scenery, etc.
Must be from Asia. They seem to have a bit of an obsession with bodily waste. Why would anyone other than a kid think that food shaped like poop is a good idea?
Oil is a finite resource. We have to break our addiction and become a whole lot more realistic. Let's start by taxing the gas wasters so they pay something approaching their fair share of usage and pollution.
When my girls were little, the doctor told me to let them go barefoot as much as possible. His reason was that the high-top baby shoes made for weak ankles, but at least my kids had the advantage of bare-footin' more than most of their generation.
What a travesty! So if the guy selected to pilot the next plane into a building showed up at the Hoover FBI, willing to turn over the plans, he's be shot summarily or sent forthwith to Guantánamo? J. Edgar must have played a formative role in the development of the characters of Bush, Cheney and friends.