ADHD is almost certainly a disease caused by omega-3 deficiency, combined with excess omega-6 in the diet. Go to google and type in omega-3 ADHD and you will find all kinds of peer-reviewed research. Since omega-6 fatty acids also probably cause cancer and heart disease, as well as skin cancer and a host of other diseases, giving them up should be a no-brainer. Of course Cargill and ADM might lose a little money, but they are ready to sell omega-6's as biodiesel as the food market goes away.

A decade or so ago I worked on a technology to convert natural gas to liquid fuel. Methane has four hydrogens per carbon, but longer chain hyrdrocarbons have two times the carbon plus two, so octane for example has eight carbons and eighteen hydrogens. Eight methanes have eight carbons plus 32 hydrogens. So you can use the extra hydrogens and some carbon from coal to make octane. Most of the world had more methane than it knows what to do with right now, but methane is expensive and difficult to transport if you don't have a pipeline. Fischer-Tropsch does not use methane for its coal conversion. The problem with methane conversion is that methane is a very stable molecule; there's lots of it in the universe for that reason. So the trick is to bust it up in a way that it recombines with a double or triple bond between a pair of carbons. After that it's easy. I'd be happy to talk to anyone with a few million to invest in the next stage of developing our process.

Is using the term "racist" the last refuge of asinine liberals? The Hispanic immigrants that I deal with are hard-working and decent people. However, most of the local drug-runners are also Hispanic. What will happen when the birth rate of the present immigrants and their offspring falls to the level of the (presently) indigenous population? Will we then need a new wave of immigrants to take the "undesirable" jobs? When does the US become crowded to the point where it's not a pleasant place to live? Bush and his patrons like Mexico a lot, so much that they want the US to be the same, with a few really rich and a lot of peasants to do the dirty work. A lot of (wealthy) Mexicans own houses in Aspen and other "desirable" locales, where they can hobnob with their fellow superior beings. Bush and his patrons are doing their damndest to create a US aristocracy. Immigration is one aspect of it.

When we lived in Pennsylvania Dutch country in the late 60's and early 67's the German language was commonly used, especially at the weekend farmers market. However, the ancestors of the people who spoke it had emigrated to the United State (actually the colonies, then) in the 18th century. Their English was none too good. But we learned to "outen the lights", and other interesting turns of phrase. My wife taught school and got used to the children rushing to the bathroom as they arrived at school. The school had a heated bathroom and their homes had cold outhouses. But we never did make it to the goat dancing festival.

Utah and Arizona looked the other way while many of these families lived on welfare. Many of the "husbands" never worked a day in their lives, unless you call selling magazine subscriptions "work". After all when you have a dozen wives to service there is precious little time or energy for anything else.

New Orleans will not disappear. Those who can benefit from living there will live there. The areas most hit by the floods were where the poor lived. The Feds should pick up the tab of relocating them and allowing the low-lying areas to return to nature. I believe that the plight of the poor and dispossessed in New Orleans is being used to make sure that any area hit by hurricanes will be made whole again at the expense of the rest of us. There are many coastal areas that are so prone to hurricane damage that no one should live there, poor or well-to-do. It's a lot less costly to relocate the dispossessed poor of New Orleans than to pick up the tab to rebuild million dollar houses along the Gulf and East Coasts. Motherwell, do you live in a large expensive at-risk house on those coasts? Are you using the poor as your stalking horse?

The wealthy, upper middle class, and coastal developers want the rest of us to insure them against the risks of coastal living. Until about 100 years ago no one but the poor would live on the coasts. The well-connected are using the poor as their stalking horses to get us to assume their risks. For the next 30 years the Gulf and East Coasts will be battered by hurricanes. Louisiana pols used the levee money in the past to enrich their cronies and buy votes. What has changed? They are still a bunch of crooks. If the well-to-do want to live high risk lives, let them, without subsidy. But we can't allow the poor to return to homes that are below sea level.

Uhhh, G.W. Bush for all his stupidty and other failings learned to fly in the normal American amount of time.

It has always appeared to me that Africans (and Arabs) would rather turn their excess production into more children, instead of infrastructure. Arabia gets away with it because of all the oil revenue, but sub-Saharan Africa, except for Nigeria, has little oil. And Nigeria, even with oil, still is totally screwed up. I think it has something to with the lack of omega-3 in the diet of most Africans. Corn, their main staple is all omega-6, which is not what brains are made of. Most Americans are getting stupider for the same reason. Fast food is definitely not brain food.