The Wrong Lessons from Chernobyl

Railing against The New York Times is a minor national pastime across the political spectrum, though probably trending toward the over-50 age bracket. It can be exhausting, even when you work there, and a complete waste of time. If there were just a few more American news organizations with similar scope, The Times would not attract so much attention.  Since the Reagan era, as the political center has slid farther to the right than anyone ever imagined, The Times at least has held the line against the flat-earthers and gunslingers. But sometimes the paper is astonishingly wrongheaded on subjects where it should command the high ground (if only because hardly anybody else is there), most often when it cannot distance itself from the boorish plutocratic elements of its readership.  A phrase in today’s sophomoric pro-nuclear editorial–“Only Germany succumbed to panic after the Fukushima disaster and began to phase out all nuclear power” (emphasis mine)–is singular in its propagandistic distortionHere, the article looks at some reasons why sexual amerikabulteni.com purchase cialis online relationship can suffer. This medicine is known as ‘Kali tadalafil generic india Musli’. In fact, it is a reasonable vent generic viagra sample for sexual power. Besides the inside of a condom is coated with a numbing gel cheap levitra tablets that delays ejaculation. . It resonates deeply with how the paper covers the entire nuclear industry in its news columns.  (But of course The Times is pro-nuclear–can anyone imagine the share-trading data centers in northern New Jersey with solar panels on their roofs?) Kudos to whoever wrote it, really (“Te salut, Don Corleone”).  He or she could make a lot more money working for Con Ed’s p.r. department, and shouldn’t succumb to panic over the next round of buy-outs on 8th Avenue.

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