I saw this post on andrewsullivan.com and thought it was pretty good:

"Any real solution to our climate problems will surely involve building more nuclear power plants - and we should be doing more of that ourselves as well as encouraging many developing countries to do the same. But the knowledge behind nuclear reactors is very hard to insulate ( Read more... )

"US Recalls Thousands of Bombs found harmful to Iraqi and Afghan Children" Tom the Dancing Bug comic from Salon.com:

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/08/23/tomo/

Note adjustment in title. I don't mean to imply that bombs and shells are always evil. Like swords, crossbows, greek fire, machine guns, poison gas, napalm, and nuclear weapons, they are designed to kill and destroy. And sometimes that's what you have to do to save those you care about from death or tyranny. But any weapon has side-effects, and ( Read more... )