A civilization, if you can keep itLike it or not, the West is running out of water. Yes, we’ve grown to love our mirage of a state, but a host of studies and reports warn of the ultimate baking if we don’t begin to irrigate like sane people. Oil companies only speed up our eventual crisping, of course, when they buy up water [...]

Lonely at the bottom, tooPoor U.S. Sen. John Ensign. After betraying his best friend by sleeping with the man’s wife; after betraying his own wife by committing adultery; after drawing his own parents into his messy sex life, forcing them to open the checkbook to clean up junior’s mess; after lying to the spooky religious landlords of his mysterious [...]