Quick! Call a Doctor! This is serious! What if he speaks like this in front of a JUDGE????

Nuclear energy Belongs in the Technology Museum since it is not sustainable, and it is NOT clean.

We have the technology to make renewables more cost effective, especially the ones you haven't mentioned-- Geothermal, tidal, microhydro, and others, as well as wind and solar.

The thing that pisses me off the most when you nuke lovers speak is you always point to photovoltaic and say how inefficient it is. You're right. There are better ways to use the sun's power, ie direct heating of homes via both passive and active systems.

Throwing more trillions of dollars to the Nuclear Industry is like throwing the money into a failed bank . . .

Invest in a few cases. Put piles out every night for a week or two in places where you know the rats will move through. Rats eat the dehydrated potatoes. Potatoes hit moist rat stomache and expand. Rat Explodes. End of Rat. Then you just have to follow the smell to clean up the mess.

We used to do this in the horse barn. Cats don't like instant mashed potatoes, though you will have to put them in a place inaccessible to dogs. And dehydrated potatoes aren't poisons in the traditional sense, won't pollute the groundwater or foul anything else up.

I used to go to Livingston College back in the early 70's, which is part of Rutgers U and built on the old Camp Kilmer grounds. We used to take downtime in the woods, amongst the old bunkers and places where they used to train. There were a few places in the woods nearby that were marked with very old warning signs that bore the radioactive symbol, if you could find them under the weeds, and read 'em with the paint faded the way it was.

I can also remember a few houses on Stelton Rd that had to have their yards dug up to a depth of around 4 or 5 feet since the contractor who had built those homes 40 or more years before had gotten the fill dirt off one of the backroads in the Camp. The geiger counter readings in those yards were through the roof.

So this does not surprise me in the least.

It might pay to have a spare, a pay-as-you-go phone for just such emergencies. Most of us wouldn't need that type of redundancy, but in your case (and the case of every doctor on call) it should be mandatory.

It's worse than that. The US Government PAID small business people, in the form of tax incentives, to buy those particular gas guzzlers.

Um, since the Dems have had the majority, the FISA bill WITH telecomm immunity has passed, they handed our treasury over to the Wall Street Idiots who trashed our economy, the newest version of the Farm Bill has very little meaningful reform of Big Agribusiness in it, Guantanamo Bay still harbors prisoners who were tortured, Bush/Cheney still haven't been impeached, etc etc etc.

I'm a Dem, but I swear, I am NEVER going to vote for ANY incumbent ever again. Why? The wiretapping that Bush/Cheney did was for a purpose, and I think I know what that purpose was.

And whatever NEW challenges you feed your brain must be enjoyable and be challenges that hit on a lot of levels. I took up the fiddle, which is one of the hardest instruments to learn. Right Brain, Left Brain, Dexterity and Body Memory are all challenged on a regular basis. If I keep it going, I just might achieve competency at this infernal instrument right around the time I hit 70. I should also mention that it is addicting, and a great way to get even with the neighbors for their loud rap music. :-) It seems also that there are a whole lotta OLD fiddlers around who are still raising hell.

Whatever you choose to be your new "Brain Food" make sure it challenges you on similar levels. If not music, some sort of art, or craft that involves both intellectual skills as well as physical/coordinational ones is what you need to find. Whether it be rebuilding a classic car from the ground up, or furniture making, or refurbishing vintage audio equipment . . . whatever it is, it's got to be something interesting to you as well as challenging, and that when you start to achieve some competency, there are always going to be new levels to reach for.