There’s a pernicious and evil myth going around that simply shooting the “Bad Guys with Guns” will make everything better. It’s the central mythology surrounding our citizens walking around armed, able to buy whatever they want to with regards to lethal killing implements with only a modicum of regulation.

I just want to know one thing from those who spout this drivel.

How many Bad Guys have YOU shot?

The Fukushima robots are dead; they die as soon as they go on the job. Five years on, the vaunted "subterranean ice wall" around the glow-tomb, intended to prevent further contamination of groundwater, it is not finished. The humans, they do not know how to dispose of the highly radioactive water, stored in an ever-increasing number of tanks, scattered around the site. The radiation, emanating from the mutant structure, it is so powerful, that it has proven impossible to find and remove melted blobs of fuel rods. The technology required to even establish the location of many such rods, it does not yet exist.

1. reflect deeply on a subject

I mulled over the events of the afternoon; philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years; The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

2. heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink

mulled cider

Thanks to "Artha - The Open Thesaurus" I have a choice: Mull as meaning #1; or Mull as meaning #2.

Just watch the video:

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This November's election in the U.S. has the potential to be... interesting.

So a good guy, Teacherken, writes the latest in a sequence of diaries essentially saying the Sanders people should all give up. The tenor is all the same: we told you he would lose.

Now most of these people never thought Sanders would break 30, so the idea the know something we don't is absurd. We long since outperformed their wildest expectations.

So I wrote this:
No it really is. Profoundly condescending.

* Somewhere, somehow a Hill Person will take this title as a misogynistic attack on Hillary. If only I kid....

Well, so this is Caucus99Percent. Clearly based on your basic drupal platform, with standard templates. And you know? There ain't nothing wrong with that.

Went to RSVP and the event is full
But I may go hang out anyways! Any other Portland area members going to be there? It can be an unofficial C99 meetup

The following is part of an email I received from BoldProgressives today.

We've got an opportunity to highlight some important issues that the entire progressive community needs to be thinking about at the upcoming Netroots Nation Conference on July 14 - 17 in St. Louis.

Here's a fact: progressives are a minority in the Democratic Party. Or, at least, a minority of its voters. This is true for a variety of reasons that are far too many and too complicated to fit inside a single blog post. It's a great way to start a related conversation, though: moving on from traditional party machine politics.