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Denver Presidential Debate Live Blog – Live Coverage – Election 2012 – NYTimes.com.

I think the fun will start when we start learning of all the things Romney’s campaign will walk back, starting with the “I love regulations” bit–bitter bait for conservatives coming from the mouth of their elected.

NewsDaily: Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study.

It’s not that pesticides are bad for you, though they surely are, especially for those most vulnerable and those applying them or living downwind and down-stream from their immediate application. What really bothers me is the sheer lack of foresight evidenced by those who could regulate these practices. 

It’s a governmental duty: to step out of the market’s immediacy and to look to what is desirable for the populace not just this or next quarter or year but actually decades in the future. Sadly, nearly all governmental models extant are not predicated on such foresight’s desirability or even possibility. Arguably, China’s is more forward looking but as a short look at the Three Gorges Dam project suggests, that look deprecates the consequences of environmental effects and works.