There are so many things going on this week that Velveeta’s poor little brain nodule is playing a game of Pong on top of a game of Astroids with the Space Invaders theme playing in the background! It’s truly a jumble salad, made worse by lack of sleep.

There is so much going on in the world today. Why, only less than 10 days ago we were worried about the Japan Tsunami. Remember that? We watched in horror as the force of water upon Japan washed away whole cities. As the death toll continues to climb, we hardly mention the “water” except where it relates to getting it on the Nuclear reactors that threaten the country and the rest of the world in some part.


This starts our debate here in the US regarding nuclear power and our use. Frankly, a conversation that we should have been talking about up front, all along; I mean we are only one disaster away from the same travesty that is happening in Japan. My biggest concern is the fact that we use Nuclear power without some clear method of getting rid of the waste made from it. This stuff tends to hang around for a few (thousands) of years. And lest we forget: a shitload of money to dispose of. Interestingly enough, there is not much from the DOE on the disposal of nuclear waste in how much it costs, etc. (There is plenty of documents to download, just not enough time in the day to read through it all to find the info).

There’s a website devoted to Yucca Mountain here but it doesn’t’ really tell us much about what the actual costs are in terms of not just money, but our future and the effects on the environment.

In other big news, we are bombing Libya. Now I am not opposed to bombing Libya personally, not being a big fan of Colonel Kaddafi/Gadhafi/whatever. But I have to wonder, why Libya? Why didn’t we stop the oppression of peoples in Rwanda, Sudan, D.R. Congo or the Ivory Coast for example? Why not? I can only think of one reason and it rhymes with EMBROILED.

Have a great Sunday.