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  • oops

    (scratch that "or not" from the end)On Dennis Kucinich drops presidential bid posted 1 year, 10 months ago 10 Responses

  • sad

    Honestly, I was going to vote for him, whether or not the electronic voting machines registered my vote or not.On Dennis Kucinich drops presidential bid posted 1 year, 10 months ago 10 Responses

  • "consumers"

    This is, perhaps, a little nit-picky but important item:
    <rant>
    I resent being called (and what's more, assumed to be) a "consumer". I have no desire to be a consumer, one who consumes (should we say, "devours"). I think this is more than just semantics in the pejorative sense. Someone who uses a good or service need not be a consumer. A customer, yes, would be a better term.

    </rant>On Consumers shopped less this holiday season, testing brand loyalty posted 1 year, 11 months ago 3 Responses

  • re: theBike45

    it is silly, almost childish, to talk about the "costs" of nuclear power in terms of billions of dollars and say nothing about the radioactive waste that has literally nowhere to go, and not enough of those billions of dollars to try and create, if you can do so, places that would be "suitable" to dump it, meaning something to the point of: we're not really sure that this will be safe 50 or 100 years from now, but we don't have anything better at the moment than big underground places...i guess it won't get into the groundwater, right?

    For what it's worth, if you have a major problem with a wind turbine installation, or a major failure, or even if all of the components spontaneously melted and oozed into the ground, you'd still be nowhere remotely near a minor problem or minor failure of a nuclear plant. On Strict safety guidelines cause construction delays at nuclear plants in Finland and Taiwan posted 2 years, 2 months ago 14 Responses

  • two things

    1) RE: thebike45  "Coal alone is quite cheap - not as cheap as nuclear..."
    Nuclear isn't cheap in any sane way you look at it. Especially when you can't cool the damn thing, and especially when you factor in the post-operational costs.

    2) RE: one point in the article
    "But no one puts up the capital to build plants if they don't think they're going to get their capital back, along with some profit."

    Honestly, our government has a pretty good track record of building while KNOWING they would never get the capital back. Look into the history of the Army Corps of Engineers, or the Bureau of Reclamation. Granted, both of their types of projects were dams, canals, general devastation, etc., but it is entirely realistic from a historical perspective that our government (thus, one step removed, we) would front the money. A number of congressmen/women could make quite a profit and add to their already padded pockets for doing so. FWIWOn Not your father's Old Coal posted 2 years, 3 months ago 7 Responses

  • re: coffeepot12

    "Last week I learned that there are pork products in the manufacture of marshmallows and gummy worms!!!

    How is a person to be healthy today if they sneak garbage into our foods?? "

    stop eating marshmallows and gummy worms. your health will increase astronomically.

    But seriously...the organic designation has more to do with how the animal or plant is handled, grown, fed, etc., than with the meta-question of whether or not the animal is "clean or unclean". On Umbra on organic pork posted 2 years, 3 months ago 19 Responses

  • you guys should read...

    Cadillac Desert, by Mark Reisner. Though it could stand another updating, it gives a pretty full treatment to this and much-related subjects. You will laugh, you will cry, you will cry some more.

    robertOn In a devastating new magazine piece posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 Responses