Lots of big events this week. As a dirty liberal, I am excited about the California Court ruling on Proposition 8. The NY Times ran an article about consumer demand causing legal changes to factory farms; chickens are getting more space and fewer hormones. Hooray! Closer to home, and farther from cool, the J&J Corporation, which makes chemicals for the “portable sanitation industry”, managed to dump a bunch of chemicals into a creek near Athens, turning the water a brilliant blue rivaled only by cartoons and chick drinks at tiki bars. There is some irony to the “sanitation” company making a humongous mess, I suppose. But not enough to make it ok.