We have not seen so many potboiler movie cliches since 1989 when cold
fusion was followed by a massive oil spill, followed by the Tiananmen
Square protest and massacre (June), followed by the fall of the
Berlin Wall (November).
This week --
A terror suspect was apprehended after being pulled from an airplane
that had departed from the gate and was called back at the last minute . . .
Meanwhile . . .
BP is rushing to build a . . . "pollution containment chamber, a
100-ton, 40-foot-tall rust brown device that workers were still
putting together Monday in the Port Fourchon, Louisiana, workyard,
where welders' torches showered sparks as gulls flew overhead. . . .
It is the biggest such chamber ever constructed, BP officials say." (CNN)
This is where we came in.
In the long, long view of history, the only important thing that
happened after WWII was the discovery of cold fusion. Unless it is forgotten.
- Jed
