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Spokker rises to the occasion, leaving this comment about a new poll finding that Californians support more nuclear power:

"France is over 70% nuclear and they aren't a smoldering crater.

"What we really need is more trains, nuclear power, and legalized marijuana. That will fix 90% of the problems in this country."

Obviously, I'd like to know what solves the other 10% of our problems. In my perhaps dim view, three things would help: eliminating timeouts both before and after kickoffs in NFL games, more restaurants staying open late for dinner (by which I mean 1 a.m.) and a law requiring "The Wire" to be brought back for a sixth season.

As for nuclear power and the French, here's a link to a useful article on PBS' Frontline website.

--Steve Hymon

Comments

[Morgan Wick]

We still haven't come up with a better ultimate solution to nuclear waste than burying it in the ground where it'll have to sit undisturbed for thousands of years if it doesn't leak or otherwise get opened accidentially.

[KateNonymousk]

I think we should get a do-over of The Wire's fifth season, as it was originally conceived.