I’ve been incredibly busy lately, with a couple of fun but time-consuming outside projects going on, so I secretly harbored a fantasy this year: that the New York Yankees (my chosen baseball organization) would not make the playoffs. That likely labels me as not a true fan. Maybe that’s so. Being a Yankee fan takes …
Ed McGaffigan, former aide to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, long-serving member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the guy whose endless patience helped me understand, deeply, how government really works, died today. I will repeat what I wrote in January, when it was clear that Ed was dying: Reporters depend on the generosity of smart people, …
Nov. 2, 1989, was a strange day for me. It was the last day the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner published. I did a summer at the HerEx back in 1985, as an intern, and I largely hated every minute of it. We were the scrappy second paper to the much larger Los Angeles Times, all “it …
George and Big Toe Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I need to clarify something, because there have been a lot of rumors floating around the Internet since the news broke Friday that George Hotz had hacked an iPhone, unlocking it so you can use it with any mobile phone company. Big Toe and George did in …
From the BBC: Two Somali journalists have been killed in the capital Mogadishu in separate attacks within hours of each other. The owner of HornAfrik radio and television, Ali Iman Sharmake, died when his car exploded after apparently running over a landmine. He had just been to the funeral of one of his leading radio …
squirrelOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Some random notes arising from cleaning off my desk and related spaces in my brain. Not sure this hangs together, but I need to put it somewhere so I can get on with my afternoon: Walking this morning with Lissa and Sadie along Embudo Arroyo, a concrete arroyo in Albuquerque’s Northeast …
Yesterday afternoon’s service for Tim Moy was impossibly sad and impossibly beautiful. Looking around Keller Hall, I was amazed at the different communities who Tim had touched so deeply, from the other parents at Luke’s elementary school to the big thinkers at Sandia’s Advanced Concepts group to his students to the faculty to the stalwart …
The blogger known as Kite String and Key thinks Matt Groening is partly to blame for U.S. opposition to nuclear power: For almost 20 years, Matt Groening has perpetuated the fear of nuclear generation in the United States. Also, I think, our disdain for fat white guys. And rascally kids. Groening’s very likely to blame …
I don’t normally double-post, but there are issues involved in this that are of relevance here as well as at the Journal. Reporters depend on smart people to explain things to them. That generally means people who are intimately involved in the subject at hand. When the subject matter is an issue of controversy, that …
From Plastic Manzikert: Nuclear Power is not the only option, but it is a valid option. There are flaws, of course – it’s more expensive than carbon dioxide emitting power generators. That’s an economic problem, and as the world moves away from fossil fuels, that disadvantage will go down.