EPA looks at perchlorate

No surprises here. Perchlorate mucks up the thyroid. It is used to make lots of things, including rocket fuel, road flares, explosives and batteries. The EPA has decided that mandating a clean level of perchlorate would result in meaningful health risk reduction for people using public water. The Pentagon doesn't think their testing of various rocket type things was as big an impact in the contamination as is thought. The Pentagon is also relieved that they won't have to pay for anything relating to cleanup, but they also assure us that they did not influence the EPA in any way.

Same old story here. Don't worry, you can always buy your public water from Pepsico or some other bottler who will take it from your public supply and clean it for you. At least, clean enough that they still have a healthy profit margin. At least something will be healthy.

More importantly, the EPA's assistant administrator for water is named Ben Grumbles. Grumbles is on the case, so if your babies don't develop properly, you know it isn't from perchlorate in the water. You probably shouldn't have had that last hit of crack, but I don't blame you. Any comfort in a storm on that grim day when they repo'd your car and you couldn't pay your mortgage.

Remember to vote this coming November! Or earlier if you can. Some campaigners are annoyed that you can vote early. It's possible that their carefully planned barrage of politico-bullshit won't be able to snow you as bad if you go early. The man on the radio this morning worried that if you vote now, you might think the economy and the mortgage crisis is the main issue. I know you better than that, so grab a bottle of water and get to the booth!