Thanks. Glad you're back. Loved. This. Column.
And the questions we are not smart enough to articulate...
BTW, I wish folks who taught Economics actually knew what they were talking about.
Disclosure: I respect and admire Prof. Richard Wolff's take on Economics. And I root for the Dodgers. Win or lose.
Be well.
Loved this piece. Thanks Mr. Danehy. Appreciate the way you segued from a mundane piece of deep-fried American pastry to a semi-lethal, dangerous congestion in the Old Pueblo's byways and the road authorities' serious neglect and indifference to the problem.
I suppose till enough people die or suffer really severe injuries will the Kafkaesque bureaucrats in city hall decide that maybe, maybe, maybe...they ought to do something about it. But who's holding their breath?
Be well.
Mr. Danehy, one can totally empathize. The infamous and sociologically documented "low info voter" appears to fall for the political show bought and paid for by corporate persons and their lobbyists who appear to vet for the most co-optable or corruptible (or both) candidate-aspirant in sight. The GOP appears to attract these types, bar none!
Once vetted, mainly for telegenic qualities, glibness and their ability to lie with a straight face, dark money sponsors bribe, er, pay for their political campaigns. Those monies pay for incredibly misleading ads designed to target the, you guessed it, low-info voter--a suggestible type all-too-ready to fall for pietistic, heart-string tugging, emotionally-and-identity reassuring messages. Or those subliminally charged with tribalistic fear and hate of "other."
Arizona appears populated with this bunch in droves, especially around the Phoenix area. Does "boss" Arpaio ring (Pavlovian) bells?
I hate the expression, "a people get the government they deserve," as in my experience, all too often, it's under-and-misinformed majoritarian voters who burden us with corporatist scoundrels.
Be well.
tctw, not to turn this into a pissing contest, but...
You write, "We should build one place deep inside a big rock mountain, not on a fault line, to store all of the fuel. It shouldnt be too hard."
Easier written than done. Two words, "Yucca Mountain." As for contaminated individuals. Please read what's happened at Chernobyl these past 10 weeks. Young men in uniform "just following orders," you understand.
Contact anyone in the Nevada state legislature regarding Nevada as the nuclear dump of America. The entire state went NIMBY some years back...
BTW, man has been on Earth give or take a million years. While we've had no accidental exposure so far (and if we did, would the feds invoke "national security" and cover it up, say as a "bio-weapon leak" or an "outbreak of Ebola?"). Who guarantees the future? See what I mean?
Please read "The Atomic Priesthood and Nuclear waste management" by Sebastian Muscha.
Nuclear waste storage is not just an inter-generational problem. It can extend a million years into the future. Too bad the scouts never handed out Nuclear Dynamics ribbons.
I am surprised that as a scout one can behave so cavalierly toward _our_ environment. Allow me to drag my late 60's Eagle Scout creds. But there exists no "Planet B."
We've made a Faustian bargain with the nuclear genie. You and I will be dead if and when nuclear waste becomes a real watershed problem. Posterity gets to pay the bill. Let's not diss Mother Earth any more than we have to.
Be well.
Greg Hale's post above says it all: Big Alcohol and Big Pharma do NOT WANT THE COMPETITION. So much for the _free market_ and the usual malarkey sold to the gullible American public.
-Bribed-, oops, "campaign-fund recipient" Senators know who their real constituents are and vote _accordingly_.
And the Prison-industrial complex continues to profit from the hypocrisy...
These quasi-strict liability prosecutions make a cop's (not to mention ambitious, lazy DA's) job a piece of cake. Talk about low-hanging fruit prosecutions.
Be well.
Tom,
I actually met one guy who studied nuclear engineering at the U during my undergrad days. I was singularly impressed. Since he never mentioned the existence of a reactor in the basement of the Engineering building, I wonder in retrospect whether there existed a gag order of sorts for these students.
That said, but for the permanent, semi-eternal storage of lethal, spent nuclear rods and other seriously radioactive detritus, nukes would present an utopian solution...
I ain't buying or biting till the storage problem gets licked. Till then nuclear plants remain a no-sale.
Be well.
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Thanks. Glad you're back. Loved. This. Column.
And the questions we are not smart enough to articulate...
BTW, I wish folks who taught Economics actually knew what they were talking about.
Disclosure: I respect and admire Prof. Richard Wolff's take on Economics. And I root for the Dodgers. Win or lose.
Be well.
Be well.
I suppose till enough people die or suffer really severe injuries will the Kafkaesque bureaucrats in city hall decide that maybe, maybe, maybe...they ought to do something about it. But who's holding their breath?
Be well.
Once vetted, mainly for telegenic qualities, glibness and their ability to lie with a straight face, dark money sponsors bribe, er, pay for their political campaigns. Those monies pay for incredibly misleading ads designed to target the, you guessed it, low-info voter--a suggestible type all-too-ready to fall for pietistic, heart-string tugging, emotionally-and-identity reassuring messages. Or those subliminally charged with tribalistic fear and hate of "other."
Arizona appears populated with this bunch in droves, especially around the Phoenix area. Does "boss" Arpaio ring (Pavlovian) bells?
I hate the expression, "a people get the government they deserve," as in my experience, all too often, it's under-and-misinformed majoritarian voters who burden us with corporatist scoundrels.
Be well.
You write, "We should build one place deep inside a big rock mountain, not on a fault line, to store all of the fuel. It shouldnt be too hard."
Easier written than done. Two words, "Yucca Mountain." As for contaminated individuals. Please read what's happened at Chernobyl these past 10 weeks. Young men in uniform "just following orders," you understand.
Contact anyone in the Nevada state legislature regarding Nevada as the nuclear dump of America. The entire state went NIMBY some years back...
BTW, man has been on Earth give or take a million years. While we've had no accidental exposure so far (and if we did, would the feds invoke "national security" and cover it up, say as a "bio-weapon leak" or an "outbreak of Ebola?"). Who guarantees the future? See what I mean?
Please read "The Atomic Priesthood and Nuclear waste management" by Sebastian Muscha.
Nuclear waste storage is not just an inter-generational problem. It can extend a million years into the future. Too bad the scouts never handed out Nuclear Dynamics ribbons.
I am surprised that as a scout one can behave so cavalierly toward _our_ environment. Allow me to drag my late 60's Eagle Scout creds. But there exists no "Planet B."
We've made a Faustian bargain with the nuclear genie. You and I will be dead if and when nuclear waste becomes a real watershed problem. Posterity gets to pay the bill. Let's not diss Mother Earth any more than we have to.
Be well.
-Bribed-, oops, "campaign-fund recipient" Senators know who their real constituents are and vote _accordingly_.
And the Prison-industrial complex continues to profit from the hypocrisy...
These quasi-strict liability prosecutions make a cop's (not to mention ambitious, lazy DA's) job a piece of cake. Talk about low-hanging fruit prosecutions.
Be well.
I actually met one guy who studied nuclear engineering at the U during my undergrad days. I was singularly impressed. Since he never mentioned the existence of a reactor in the basement of the Engineering building, I wonder in retrospect whether there existed a gag order of sorts for these students.
That said, but for the permanent, semi-eternal storage of lethal, spent nuclear rods and other seriously radioactive detritus, nukes would present an utopian solution...
I ain't buying or biting till the storage problem gets licked. Till then nuclear plants remain a no-sale.
Be well.