The article really has nothing to do with nuclear power plants, despite the opening references.
He is talking about the poor security at the Oak Ridge facility.
If private security guards are so bad, maybe they should call in the experts from Homeland Security.

Chimps often have pale skin. This one looks eerily human.

They still hear the "Axis of Evil" speech, and would rather be North Korea than Iraq today.

Iran is between Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention a nuclear-armed Pakistan. Their strong desire for a deterrent weapon is understandable.

I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!

No, I prefer it before he had an Americanised accent, thanks.

Thats a stretch! All of those men were brilliant high achievers, but only one group was ruthless enough to launch a war that killed a hundred thousand people, mostly their own, and achieved no obvious gain except to the 1%-ers. (Were Canadian commoners so much worse off?)
      Much as I admire the intellect of people like Jefferson and Adams, they took assholeness (ruthlessness?) to a level that makes Bill Gates look like a saint.

I'm saying it is a lesser issue than rape, an aggravating factor, but mostly objecting to the emotional language that equates it with child abuse. Puritans tend to see things in black and white, and accuse anyone else of condoning the crime.

> He fucked a child, barely a teenager.

Your puritanism is showing. Do you want to lock up her boyfriend at the time, also?
  The real crime is non-consensual sex, and I wouldn't forgive that easily at 16 or 26 either.

Its not quite so simple. Polanski pled guilty only to a lesser charge, and fled when there was the threat of a very long sentence, despite the plea bargain.
Unfortunately the case became political, and the judge was later removed from it, after he fled.
Even the victim was , and remains, sympathetic to his plight. The guilt is not in question though. Nothing like the Assange case in that way.

Its not HFCS specifically.
Other countries like Australia use plain old sucrose, and have followed the same path of increased obesity and diabetes.

And sugar is only one part of the changes is diet and activity.

Apparently, they just discovered that such algorithms can in practice be patented in the US.
All they needed to do is license the patent, and watch the money roll in.
All that coding was a waste of time, and has been shut down.

given so few wild rhinos are left, how about giving them all prosthetic horns, to reduce their value?
It would still be a story, because you can use 3D printers for that too, if you really wanted to.

No - it started long before that. Seatbelts in cars compulsory from 1970. Motorcycle helmets before that. Horns on horseless carriages.

If bicycle helmets are your biggest whinge, you've been lucky so far. Try something like building a house, or running a small business, and see how many pointless regulations there are to make your life difficult. At least helmets are useful, even if the laws are not.

ladies with a house-full of cats are just self-medicating?

The US has ten carriers. China, Russia and France have one each.