{"id":4751,"date":"2016-03-21T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2016-04-10T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:13:17","slug":"human-predicament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4751","title":{"rendered":"THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(One of them.)<\/p>\n<p>We can be brilliant about individual areas of inquiry and investigation, but we are so blinkered when it comes to common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Cosseted in her fever dream of coronation, Hillary Clinton thought she&#8217;d cruise to primary victory by telling us how little she would do for us and how much she wanted to work with Republican extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s done a massive flip-flip and says she&#8217;s for coal after being against it as a clean energy source. Oh, and she loves nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, if the human race had any common sense, would it have created nuclear power? Low-level radiation produced daily, ever-present danger of meltdown, waste that stays high-level radioactive for thousands of years&#8211;how clean can you get?<\/p>\n<p>This is what&#8217;s called electable in todays world of rancid &#8220;punditry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does this woman, btw, realize how close Indian Point is to her Chappaqua home, and does she have any idea of what&#8217;s going on with radioactivity-contaminated ground water there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(One of them.) We can be brilliant about individual areas of inquiry and investigation, but we are so blinkered when it comes to common sense. Cosseted in her fever dream of coronation, Hillary Clinton thought she&#8217;d cruise to primary victory &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}