Wram: "As a child I would walk around Baton Rouge and every time I saw anything named after Huey Long, I would think 'wow, this Chinese man was so popular'"
It's become popular to blame The Hippie for nuclear's death but every major energy source gets protests. There's a reason nuclear power only had a few good years in the 1970s, and it's not really the hippies' fault
The idea that we need absolute deference to mass opinion on technical questions of utility regulation but no compromise with the electorate on “who plays on the girls volleyball team?” is a really perverse way of thinking about politics.