WorldChanging has a good overview of the “arguments for and against nuclear power”:http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002147.html as a solution to the current (and near future) oil/global warming/environment crisis. My personal view is that nuclear power can be useful in a few isolated cases, but improving efficiency and developing distributed alternative energy (solar, wind, geothermal) is a better use of our time and effort.
Oh, if only we could harness the mighty power of Internet debate!
Aaaaigh! Crusaders! _(incoherent gibbering)_ “The Crusaders”:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7235393 are coming!
If only we had “some kind of missile”:http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_scripts/church.asp, we could take the steam out of those bells.
[UPDATE: I swear I didn't read "Karen's post":http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000523.html before posting this. We're just on the same wavelength.]
Have we really become so paranoid? Is the official government response to a foreign visitor asking to see the President to “knock him down, blow up his luggage, and charge him with resisting arrest”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4930070,00.html? I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but it still makes me sad.
Looking for an independent café nearby? Use the “Starbucks Delocator”:http://www.delocator.net/ to find one, or add your favorite to the database. (I was surprised to find that Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf is actually a transnational corporation. Learn something new every day!)
“This photo”:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html speaks for itself. Wow!