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Saturday, December 13, 2003 |
Unfortunately.
No Will to Win?. The
Democrats have been blessed with the high ground on one important issue
after another, but they are too timid to take full advantage. By Bob Herbert. [New York Times: Opinion]
The Dems may indeed sink like the Titanic next year. But I don't think
Dr. Dean is the problem -- at least, not yet. The problem is the party
itself. God and the Republicans have blessed the Democrats with the
high ground on one important issue after another, from the war in Iraq
to national economic policy to health care to education to the
environment.
But like the Union general George McClellan, the Democrats have been
too timid to take full advantage. It's a party for the faint of heart.
The Republicans are hijacking elections and redistricting the country
and looting the Treasury and ignoring the Constitution and embittering
our allies, while the Democrats are -- let's see, fumbling their way
through an incoherent primary season and freaking out over Al Gore's
endorsement of Howard Dean.
Seems to me the Democrats have been throwing elections for nigh on 30
years. It remainss one of the great American mysteries: why do the
Democrats have so much less hunger than the Republicans for victory?
It's a party for the faint of heart.
Indeed.
10:56:36 PM 
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Reason. Even
if hydrogen can be produced without releasing greenhouse gases, it may
not be as environmentally benign as advertised by activists. A study by
Caltech scientists published this past June in Science found that
hydrogen leaking out of cars, pipelines and production plants could
damage the ozone layer, which shields the planet from cancer-causing
ultraviolet sunlight. [John Robb's Weblog]
Another example of Reason misconstruing the science and facts around an environmental issue? And missing the rebuttals?
For example, Advanced Automotive News:
"Leading researchers in hydrogen technology and physics have written to
Science, objecting that the results projected by Tromp et al. are
distorted by wrong assumptions. Physicist Amory Lovins, co-founder and
CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute, maintains that the study's estimates
of hydrogen leakage are 10 to 100 times too high."
See also other relevant pieces (PDFs) from Lovins.
10:18:22 PM
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Winer sez: Okay I can tell I'm going to watch this about 100,000 times. [Scripting News]
Wow. A waste of time, but a very impressive one.
9:38:17 PM
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