Three Mile blah blah
Via Atrios, Steve Benen over at the Washington Monthly comments on McCain’s shortcut approach when it comes to nuclear power: “You know, the other night in the debate with Senator Obama, I said his...
View ArticleSunny side up
So I’ve been following the news out of Japan – as have you, I’m sure – and as the situation has worsened, I’ve been taken aback by the continued sunny reporting, at least by most American print...
View ArticleFar shores
The situation in Japan seems to be worsening rapidly. The EU’s energy commissioner warned of “possible catastrophic events” in Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency, via Zero Hedge, says this:...
View ArticleAre there really no limits?
Never fails. Write anything even remotely suggesting that conservation might, you know, not be such a bad idea and the daggers come out. How dare you, go the responses. How dare you endanger our...
View ArticleThe case for nuclear, and the problem with it
Via Sullivan, a piece from George Monbiot in the U.K. Guardian about how the Fukushima disaster has made Monbiot – who describes himself as a “green” – bullish on nuclear power: You will not be...
View ArticleAtomic village idiots
Vivian Norris in the HuffPo on the fact that, hey, didn’t we just have a major nuclear accident at this power plant in Japan? Remember that? Boy, that’s disappeared from the news, hasn’t it? I guess...
View ArticleSometimes you have to lie
Earlier this month, the head of the Eurogroup council of euro-zone finance ministers, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, said that when the threat of immediate market turbulence looms – in...
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