I’ve just published a foreign policy-related post at Outside the Beltway:
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Damage
Some quick statistics on the damage done by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan along with a few musings about nuclear power and the media panic going on in the West.
To suggest a change in topic, the real estate news in this link-fest is ugly:
http://timiacono.com/index.php/2011/03/15/tuesday-morning-links-49
The Springfield paper connected Illinois nuke plants to the New Madrid fault this morning. The closest is in Clinton (btw/ Champaign and Bloomington), which seems pretty far, but you can feel occassional tremors there. Plus I belive Clinton is the last built in the country; it has all of the (cost over-runs), I mean post 3-mile island improvements.