Double Header Sweep, But We All Breathe the Same Air

The San Francisco Seals U-16 club team, Pyros, won both games today in the Diablo Cup outside of Concord in the East Bay by identical scores, 2-1.

The defenders played superbly.

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Back home, sunburned, windburned, and exhausted from the long drive both ways, not to mention the emotional toll of rooting for your guy and his teammates from the sidelines, where you have nothing whatsoever to do but yell, my joy at today's outcomes is muted as I watch the continuing coverage of what is happening in Japan.

Now, in addition to the horrible death toll already inflicted on the Japanese people is the global specter of a nuclear disaster.

Again and again over the past four decades, we have been assured by officials that nuclear power is safe.

Okay, safe under normal circumstances.

But what about abnormal circumstances, which is what describes the Japanese situation? How many will now get ill and die as a result of what looks suspiciously like a nuclear meltdown underway, even though no one in the Japanese government will confirm that?

And not just Japanese people, BTW, but many others, perhaps those of us way over here, downwind as it were from the plant that may well, even as I key in these words, be releasing deadly radiation into our common atmosphere.

What cost energy?

What cost an excessive lifestyle?

That, my friends is a terrible question, but the answer may turn out to be even worse. That answer may already be blowing in the wind.

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