Second.  Diary.  Ever.  

Nearly three years after the police removed my husband from our home and I filed for divorce, day before yesterday I received the final ruling in the mail.  If it weren't on official paper with a county seal, I'd think it a cruel and tasteless joke.  Because the judge believed the lies my husband and his large family told about me, I must move from the town where I "went home to mother," though she's been dead since '98, and return to a provincial coastal village where my husband's family's lobster fishing version of the Sopranos hold considerable personal, economic and political sway, and, since I am practically a pariah there, all my friends will be virtual.
[Update: this is me begging for recs.] Will you help me keep this up long enough the snoozier among us weigh in? Thank you.

Yes, the EPA, bowing to a court order approved as the result of a US Court of Appeals Ruling has been forced to consider what might actually happen to our 70,000 tons of nuclear waste (and growing) over the next million years.

Does anyone else think the EPA's blithe response to an obvious deal-breaker borders on the insane? The pre-court order standard of 10,000 years, about twice as long as recorded human history, was crazy enough, but a million?

A sixth grader could look up the earth's crust's activities over the last million years and see that Nevada is about the worst place on the continent for this bizarre exercise. It is bright red with volcanic action. How can this be good? There's more...