Nice article.

I can't imagine the "war on terror" ever achieving anything positive, much less an actual reduction in terrorism. However, just as terrorists attach the fundamentals of our society, we can attack the fundamentals of their (heh) fundamentalism by engaging them in discussion that doesn't involve weaponry.

*Maybe* this guy is complicit in all this drama he's created. It'd be hard to know without a lot more facts than you can get in an investigative article. The only thing I know after reading this is that the guy ought to be in a hospital, not a prison. Maybe, after he gets himself right, he ought to be in prison.

Your hunch is incorrect. I'm still gonna leave the proof as an exercise for the student. Your post was very clever though. Gold star.

That's gross :]. I've always seen condoms as the choice of people who have multiple partners, can't tolerate chemical birth control, or just don't trust their SO (but are somehow dumb enough to stay with them anyway). I sure don't see a stinking latex sock as a substitute for the miracles of modern chemistry.

That is all.

If he wins re-election, we put up with his grotesque attempt at statesmanship for another 6 years. If not, he takes a $4m/year job as a lobbyist and becomes Palin's Secretary of State in 2012. There's no downside!

Come on. Intel integrated graphics are insufficient for a wide, wide variety of tasks. I wouldn't trust that thing to run a flash animation without jerks, much less an all-up DX9 title. Not to mention the power consumption is significantly less (sig links to tom's hw).. ION is still the better product. This is what Intel has, not what they wish they had.

before you post an article to a major website like Salon. That is all.

I'm in complete agreement with you, AL. I sure wish it wasn't a choice between the incompetent, corrupt and evil (also known as Republicans) and the incompetent, corrupt and spineless (those we refer to as Democrats).

Corporate taxes should be 0%, and lobbying by corporations ought to be illegal. They're not real people (though the folks who run them certainly are), and therefore shouldn't be taxed or entitled to representation. That's one of the rotten pillars of our whole broken system.

Yep, I'm an idiot. I just superimposed the wind availability map over the gmaps location for coal river mountain, and it's not in what you'd call an ideal spot for generation. WV -does- have some better land for wind, in the northeast.

I wonder what can be done with the sites that've already undergone mountaintop removal. Solar farms? It's not like the land will be productive for anything else, anytime soon. And any production out of it is better than nothing.

For the interested:

Wind map:

http://www.netpilot.ca/aes/images/US_wind_power_map.png

Coal river mountain:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=coal+river+mountain+wv&sll=37.494286,-121.981435&sspn=0.579112,0.4422&g=Fremont,+CA+94538&ie=UTF8&ll=37.107765,-79.914551&spn=9.308664,7.075195&t=p&z=7

I disagree with the contention that you get more !/$ by building power plants out-of-state, pretty much anywhere. Transmission loss alone creates dramatic incentives to produce locally. Centralization of our power generation makes us more vulnerable to terrorists, and simple bad luck.

In general, I think going with a diffuse renewable power grid makes sense all over. If it -does- end up costing marginally more, but we get to keep our landscapes intact and unpoisoned, that's a reasonable price to pay.

The article also makes a very good point: coal for 17 years, or wind pretty much forever. The counter argument, I guess, is that if you want wind power from a destroyed landscape, you could rebuild the mountain. At ruinous cost. Doesn't seem worth it to me.

"something into the letter body". So there.

Both major parties are the party of business, beholden to business, and act in the interests of business. Note the distinct lack of reference to "the people" there.

I don't much care what CEOs publicly think will be good for the economy. These creatures generally say anything and do anything to get more money for their companies. That's their function. Remind you of anyone? Ah yes, politicians, who will say anything and do anything to get campaign contributions, so their careers can continue. Those contributions are generally provided by the rich (who own businesses) and businesses themselves. What a convenient arrangement!

Is that people need to stop talking about kink and non-consensual stuff like pedophilia in the same pieces. It unconsciously associates the two, which in a free society like ours is dangerous. It leads to lynch mobs. First they came for the perverts.

Full disclosure: I am kinky, but also adamant about only engaging in consensual behavior.

"Because if Dick Cheney knew that you were going to find out.. he wouldn't take the money.. and we wouldn't want that!"

If:

they weren't terrorists in the first place, but were innocent people illegally kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned for years..

and they then choose to fight with the only means at their disposal against the people who tortured them..

Does that count as 'recidivism'?

Absolutely right. We failed to use the law to bring criminals to justice, and committed war crimes of our own along the way. Real good job there, W. So obviously let's now just ignore the law in the first place and continue to paper over our unforgivable errors by compounding them with further unforgivable behavior.

I'll say the same exact thing in the faces of the next group of families, even my own, who have their loved ones murdered by scumbag terrorists we released because they couldn't be charged due to our failure to follow the law. There is no other moral position here.

That's not an alternative to torture. Beating people up to soften them up for questioning is torture.