http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:50:37 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/29/153224.php#comment-34558 I appreciate your position and probably would have been in the same place up into the 1980s. Since then, I've seen representative government being gradually pushed out of the way until today's administration, which seems unable to do anything without a political twist. It seems that we no longer have a representative government, but rather a bunch of governors driven by self-interest. I'm still drafting a piece to clarify that, but will post something at some point, possibly in the first half of next year. 34558@blogcritics.org Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:50:37 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/29/153224.php#comment-34535 With the holidays I haven't been paying too much attention to the news so I don't know the details on this one. Unfortunately, if we have to be 'wrong' I would rather err on the side of safety rather then take chances. It is a lot easier to tell the country sorry for the inconvenience than it is to tell families sorry we decided not to pay any attention to the passenger lists. The hard part is knowing when to take info seriously and pass it on and when to spot that it is false. Don't want to cry wolf too often because that would defeat the purpose of the alerts. I may be naive, but I have to trust that the gov. is checking info as it comes in and rates it's reliablility. If they feel it is significant enough to raise the alert status then I think that we should heed the warning. It may be a pain in the behind but it will never be as big a pain as 9-11. 34535@blogcritics.org Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:24:03 EST