[csail-related] GSB Tonight: Salt

[jamoozy at csail.mit.edu (Andrew "Jamoozy" Correa)]

I was reading a book as I am sometimes known to do.  A war was going on, 
and the defending army was retreating.  They wanted to ensure that the 
chasing army would have as hard a time as possible chasing them, so the 
army burned the crops on their retreat and salted the earth.  Hm ...

So salting is bad . . . for . . . farmland?  Does that mean that no one 
will be able to grow any food on this land forever and ever?   I think 
the logical conclusion is that all the salt trucks in the Boston area 
are running away from an army.  I guess it's working, because I haven't 
seen any armies around here yet.

But where does all this salt come from?  My best guess so far, is that 
maybe if you're not quite bad enough for coal, Santa will give you 
salt.  At least you can sell it to the fleeing salt trucks and they can 
spread it around during Winter.  How lucky are we that for the past few 
years the snow hasn't really hit hard until after Christmas?  Imagine we 
ran out of salt at some point, those armies might already be here.

Join me in my tower, safe from the armies pursuing the salt trucks, at 
this week's

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