The Marianas Variety recently published an article about recommendations included in the Guam military buildup Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), in which the military is recommending that the local people take up indoor activities once all their public land has been taken away.

I’m serious. I couldn’t make something like that up. Check it out for yourself. There are so many things wrong with this I don’t even know where to begin.

My mother (a retired city planner) says that if an EIS includes ‘mitigation’ activities it is more likely to get passed – which is probably why they stuck this provision in. But she also says that Guam needs to give the EIS back to the military, saying that there are all kinds of problems with it and that they need more time to assess it. If anyone out there wants to pick her experienced city planner brain on the specifics of this, just send me an email.