Gil Friend: PoliticsPolitical economy, political comedy, political tragedy, geopolitics, and other issues of our timesBrain core meltdowns- February 22, 2005 WorldChanging: Joel Makower comments on Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming by Peter Schwartz and Spencer Reiss. Many comments there (amazing how nuclear gets the blood boiling), including mine: 1. '...if you don't count the high security costs of protecting nuclear plants, the environmental damage of uranium mining, and the incalculable costs of safely storing nuclear wastes...' Not to mention the cost of decommissioning nuclear power plants. How much you...http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/politics/2005/02/21.html#a891 Speaking of maps- February 6, 2005 Social Design Notes: Despite increasing consolidated and homogenous media and increasingly pervasive Internet access, ideology exists spatially. Six links in that posting. Click 'em all. You'll see a fascinating range of cartographic interpretations on the Bush-Kerry election, which offer some very different perspectives on what the election actually disclosed about the mind of the country -- and which suggest very different political strategies for the Democrats. Consider the difference (these.http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/politics/2005/02/05.html#a860 Oh, LOOK out!- February 4, 2005 ACLU Pizza and Defanging 'the Matrix' Coming to a homeland near you, unless...http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/politics/2005/02/03.html#a854 |