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I am back. When was I last back here? Slew of shit going on around the world now. I think my last post mentioned Crazy Uncle Mo in Libya....now we got a battle going on there. The biggest news lately is not in North Africa and the Middle East, but in the far east, Japan to be exact. They had one mother of an earthquake, followed by a tsunami with the icing on the cake, trouble (a rather large understatement, there) at a 40 year old nuclear reactor---with explosions, core meltdowns a possibility and radiation leaks. This is some "fun" stuff.

Oh yeah, and then it snowed, in Japan. The only upside is that the Japanese know they live in an active geoseismic area and have planned accordingly. Their building standards factor all those potential earthquakes, tsunamis and volcano eruptions into the equation. It may not be perfect, what is, but it is better than concrete slab housing in China, Iran, Pakistan, Haiti...need I go on?

The nuke issue is the outlier. It took the fifth strongest earthquake on record (not so sure how far back those records go, but I am pretty sure that the Shogunate was not measuring them. Maybe, it was a matter of the earth shaking and then tossing a virgin into a volcano to appease Mother Earth--apparently, she was viewed as a lesbian who loved fresh meat, who knew? That was going on in the land of the Mayans--fuckers and their doomsday calender, bringing this shit on) and a tsunami to fuck up this 40 year old reactor's cooling system to get us there. I think that is pretty good. Now, somebody has to find a way to prevent this Three Mile Island from turning into a Chernobyl (thank the Soviets and their high safety standards for that one, then again, what did they care if they killed off some more Ukrainians, Stalin starved millions of them and nobody seemed to care, what does that say?).

At least, there is hope. Spring training is winding up and baseball season will begin soon. Isn't that hopeful?

I was almost going to end on that happy thought. Obviously, I did not. I was thinking, even with better technology, does it make sense for Iran to go nuclear. I mean they could not care less about their own people, let alone other travelers on this blue marble--the Shi'ites are not too concerned with apocalypse scenarios--bring it on, they say. So, we have a Soviet/Russian designed reactor, with Russian trainers in another seismic area of the world. The outcome looks just rosy from these parts. Now, that is a happy thought.

Thanks for stopping by, but I am going to run. Ciao!