Former Delegate Scott Lingamfelter is showing no signs of fading into retirement, as the noted …
WILSON: Time For Facebook To Face The Music
So long as technology is wedded to Moore’s Law, culture will struggle to keep up, creating easy prey for the technorati who understand the new rules.
Your 18 Minutes of Civilization
Stile Antico has been one of my favorite “gets” of the last five years, with musical arrangements that run the gambit from the historic to the rather new — but all of it choral music one might expect to hear 500 years ago.
NPR’s All Things Considered ended up hosting Stile Antico back in 2010, which helped propel them into the mainstream. Sting has borrowed a number of their musical talents as well, using members of Stile Antico to help on Songs from the Labyrinth as well as on If On A Winter’s Night… back in 2009. Needless to say, they’ve done some pretty cool stuff.
The best part? Stile Antico is coming to Richmond, Virginia on Friday, April 6th at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
So rather than 18 minutes of civilization, you can enjoy 90 minutes of civilization in a cathedral where the acoustics are simply marvelous.
Enjoy!
Virginia Interfaith Center Praises Senator Hanger On Healthcare Expansion
“We’re just trying to be political realists,” said Del. Terry Kilgore. “It’s here to stay, so Virginia has to make the best of a bad situation.”
Delegate Mark Keam Is A Very Expensive Date
Keam’s public “Dear John” letter to Dominion isn’t about the $9,750 he took when he needed it… or the Redskins tickets…
The Only Virginia NCAA Bracket You Will Ever Need
…not that I’m rooting for anyone but Virginia, of course. Just thought you should know.
Round 2: General Assembly Will Reconvene on 11 April For Healthcare
With House and Senate budget conferees miles apart on healthcare expansion, Governor Northam has called for a special session to hammer out the details.
LINGAMFELTER: The Denuclearization of North Korea
Trump won the bet. The North Koreans blinked. And now there is a very serious chance that the standoff will develop into a deal.
BREAKING: Tillerson Out At US State Department, CIA’s Pompeo In
CIA director Mike Pompeo will replace Tillerson, while the CIA will receive its first female director in is seven-decade history.
TED Berlin: If You Want To Go Green, Go Nuclear
Longtime readers will know of my love affair with nuclear power, and despite the aversion to cost and the arrival of earthquakes in Virginia, nuclear power still gives you the best bang for the buck — not only when it comes to consistent power sources, but clean energy sources as well.
Michael Shellenberger at TEDxBerlin in November 2017 gave an amazing talk regarding the viability of nuclear power and the contrast between Germany — considered the powerhouse of green energy — and their carbon impact vs. France, whose carbon impact is not only much less than Germany, but whose reliance on “dirty” energy is a fraction of Germany’s — whose reliance on “dirty” energy is up to 40% of their total energy output and twice as expensive as France’s energy rates.
The reason why? France overtly relies on nuclear power for its clean, cheap energy.
This is a 20 minute talk, but good to run on background as you are moving through your day — or worth a cup of coffee this evening. Shellenberger even deconstructs the Chernobyl and Fukushima events and puts them into context.
In short, nuclear energy is the way to go. Surprisingly, it is not entirely embraced by our friends in the energy industry, mostly due to the immense cost of building nuclear power plants in the United States.
Still, if one is truly concerned with the environment, or truly willing to make the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy? Nuclear power — at least until we resolve the energy capture question — deserves deeper consideration.
Nuclear power is not only the safest means of making power, it has also saved 1.8 million lives by not generating the pollution other energy sources create. Surely, that is worth a conversation.