An AP story reported yesterday a chemical spill in Minas Gerais state. A massive caustic soda spill contaminated the Pomba river, which flows into the Paraíba do Sul river. (The latter flows through SJCampos, but we're far upriver from the Pomba.) The report says,

Both rivers flow from Minas Gerais into Rio de Janeiro state.

Well, not exactly. Downstream from us, the Paraíba do Sul river marks about a third of the border between the two states, but at no point does the Paraíba do Sul river flow from the former into the latter state.

A small detail, you say? Perhaps, but if this detail was wrong, how many others do you think the journalists screw up?

Remember that when they say how bad the war in Iraq is going, among other things.

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