professionary

An exchange on LinkedIn on what the word profession (or professional)  means. None of the participants actually mentioned ethics. The managing class!

(Nuclear) Options On Wall Street

A good number of scientists  and engineers, graduates from the best schools, work now on Wall Street.. Some with PhD s in nuclear science.  The best and the brightest, squeezing the last cent from every transaction. Ten years of hard work to count cents. Or are they in secret preparing Abombs to blowout the European economy

freaks afraid of fracking

While the teapartiers ignore science, there is another extremism, descending from the  hippie world view, that views technical development as destroying the Earth. For these professionists of environmental supremacy the word chemical is synonymous with poisonous. Fracking is a terrible word for them. Combining the commonly used word cracking with its more technically used synonym fracture, it seems perfect to scare.  Ironically they do not see the natural in natural gas. Using isolated examples and playing on deeper  fears they are fracking the truth about shale exploration.