Several hours, two meltdowns (both mine) and a hellacious mess later, we had our two-pound Halloween House.
But let's be clear about what it means to oppose clean energy produced locally: it means mountaintop removal in Appalachia, oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, the extraction of tar sands and transcontinental pipelines, and uranium mining and nuclear meltdowns.
(Iceland's economic meltdown was the canary in the coal mine).
Did Glenn Close's Blanche DuBois not quite mine that character's complete meltdown when "A Streetcar Named Desire" was last revived in London, at the National in 2002?
Like many pre-child individuals, I would observe others with children and know that I could do a better job; there would be no runny noses, no back talk and no meltdowns - theirs or mine - in grocery stores.
Black youths also watched as their families were the canaries in the mine shaft of the pending economic meltdown in 2008.
During an earthquake, tsunami, or nuclear meltdown, the safest place to be is in a mine.
What do the BP oil explosion, the April Massey Energy coal mine explosion and the Wall St. financial meltdown have in common?
While that has not happened, there are plenty of hidden land mines ready to explode at any moment, including a political meltdown in any of the vulnerable countries.
To put it simply, there's never been a wind blowout, no wind meltdowns, not a single wind-mining disaster, no ground water contamination from wind fracking, no clean up needed from a massive wind spill.
