The world is a dynamic place. Do you want leaders who stubbornly keep promises to keep them or adjust as the situation requires?

Good stuff, Tom. However, I believe that freaking out about a nuclear disaster—no matter its context—is a good and healthy thing. The Tohoku quake and resulting tsunami were epic, rare events to be sure. But they revealed the standing problem that exists in the calculus of risk around nuclear power generation. The…

Next to the huge fucking earthquake, followed by the huge fucking tsunami, I don’t think the reactor was the problem.