ALEXANDER RIDES AGAIN

Sen.Lamar Alexander's new book, "Going To War In Sailboats", reminds me of Slim Pickens bull riding a nuclear warhead out of a jet plane at the end of the dark comedy Dr. Strangelove. He thinks supporting nuclear power is a no brainer and he's right; you don't need any brains to support nuclear power. In fact the less brains the better. The economic perils are so great the casino barons of Wall Street won't go near it, so the taxpayers are called on to bail out another big time gamble gone bad. By the time you add in the subsidies, nuclear power is the most expensive power on earth. It diverts vast quantities of drinking water for use in it's cooling process and some engineers claim the newest reactor could allow radiation to escape into the atmoshpere. Unfortunately we got nuclear power right the first time. No matter how you use it, it is only good for killing. I'll take solar, wind, water, geothermal, hydrogen, waste to energy and bio-mass into battle anytime before I would ride that nuclear bull.