It's an all-too-rare pleasure to see the nuclear industry sweat,
but in the run-down to the wire, there were clear signs of panic in the
campaign to push through the U.S. senate a plan to ship the nation's
commercial nuclear waste to Yucca...
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18 June 2002
If you believe what the Forest Service interrogators say, Terry
Lynn Barton started the big fire in Colorado's Pike National Forest by
burning a letter from her estranged husband. Maybe so, and possibly the jury
will be forgiving...
12 June 2002
No one with even a passing knowledge about the history of
chemical and biological warfare in the United States should be in the least
surprised about recent disclosures regarding the testing of nerve gas upon
unsuspecting members of the U....
06 June 2002
Are the Greens running against Democrats ... and maybe giving
Republicans the edge? Anyone who thinks we'll have to wait till the
Bush-Gore rematch in 2004 to get into that can of worms had better look at
Minnesota this year. Here's...
29 May 2002
I always try to sell the Left on optimism because of the Left's
regrettable tendency to think everything's for the worst in the worst of all
possible worlds. We just saw East Timor celebrate independence. As I told a
celebration party put...
23 May 2002
Parable No. 1: The Propane Valve Crisis
In California and other states across this great nation, we have been confronting deadlines on new propane bottle valves. I speak of the mostly 5-gallon propane gas bottles...
In California and other states across this great nation, we have been confronting deadlines on new propane bottle valves. I speak of the mostly 5-gallon propane gas bottles...