Giving Gatsby the business
Here's your Tuesday funny: Sen. Ron Wyden (R-N.Y.) goes to Hanford, supposedly to bust chops about the eternally failing "cleanup" of the atomic bomb factory grounds. And the first thing the nucle-heads up there do is take him to the B Reactor, which is their quaint little tourist stop. And then they tell him that they want funding to turn the place into a national park, so we can all celebrate our massacre of innocent Japanese. And old Gatsby agrees. What a tenacious watchdog.
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Comments (4)
And here I thought we already had a Hot Springs National Park.
Posted by Newleaf | February 19, 2013 4:52 PM
I wonder who'll get the iodine soda fountain concession?
Posted by Mojo | February 19, 2013 4:55 PM
That's the way. Just cover it up and call it good, a National Park now. Too big to cover up this time? Let's direct people's attention then to the positive even if underneath it all it is unthinkable. We cannot tolerate "unthinkable" can we?
But then aren't we as children on, taken on a ride to Disneyland, just a continuation?
As long as it looks good, nice and green like a park should!!
Posted by clinamen | February 19, 2013 7:47 PM
"This is history we ought to preserve," he said, "a story that just shouldn't be shunted aside."
Our "trustworthy" Wyden doesn't want to shunt the story aside, he wants to punt the problem aside for future generations.
Don't they all?
How much longer can we survive with these types of people making decisions?
Posted by clinamen | February 19, 2013 8:01 PM