Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #88

Posted on March 13, 2011 in Roundup

Lynn says “It’s not fair. It’s not fair that Japan should have to deal with these meltdowns after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” We live a little more than twenty miles from San Onofre Nuclear Power Station which is built on an inactive earthquake fault within a stone’s throw of Nixon’s Western White House. I’m told that San Onofre can stand up to a 7.0 earthquake, but Japan was hit with an 8.9. What would happen if the earth ruptured like this near us? Would Southern Orange County become a wasteland?

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• Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
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• Ideology using legalities to stifle scientific critique — The law gets abused all over the world like this. Creationists here, quacks in the U.K.
• The ‘Godzilla’ Incident: Did Twitter Users Gang Up on CNN Earthquake Anchor? — A provocative read about the way that tweeters respond to natural disasters and their coverage. (But again, Al Jazeera beat out CNN.)
• Ten Ways to Lose Your Nursing License — Host a porno site, lose your license, at least in Pennsylvania
• The New Humanism — David Brooks leaves the middle for the left?
• Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal In Many States As Big Government Claims Ownership Over Our Water — Is this happening in California or New York? No, in “small government” Utah
• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False — A heavy article that is worth the read — and reread — and reread — until you understand it.
• New Discovery: Largest Molecules in Space Hint at a Life-Centric Universe — Oooo! Buckyballs!
• Update on Cat Island, Japan: Good News! — Cats are doing better after the earthquake. Still need help.
• NH GOP State Congressman Says Disabled and Mentally Ill Are ‘Defective People’ And Should Be Shipped To Siberia – The GOP has repudiated him, but ask yourself what attracted him to them.
• U.S. has highest bipolar rate in 11-nation study — Are we here because of the settler effect or because life here is just more stressful?