Comments on: EconomyBeat Podcast #9: Nuke Pills http://economybeat.org/business/economybeat-podcast-9-nuke-pills/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economybeat-podcast-9-nuke-pills user-generated content about the economy Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:22:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: roman http://economybeat.org/business/economybeat-podcast-9-nuke-pills/comment-page-1/#comment-220 roman Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:45:36 +0000 http://www.economybeat.org/?p=5406#comment-220 Thanks for writing KI! First off, nothing is disgusting about being prudent. I’m all for it. I was purposely being cryptic with the joke. My train of thought went from horror that such commerce does exist (the “cashing in on fear” aspect of the piece’s title), to completely understanding why someone would want to buy and sell KI pills, to being being put off by the blase nature of the local health department and making it necessary for an independent online seller to exist (but still a little weirded out by the whole thing). The comment in my intro was trying to elicit the listener to decide what part, if any, disgusted them. And, to use a rhetorical flourish by calling something a “great journey” that both started and ended on the same spot (“disgust to a slightly different form of disgust”), mirroring the journey of the story. Ha ha! See? Funny, right? No, well OK. I try.

Anyway, thanks again for commenting. Keep that skeptical ear tuned. I agree, a NPR story (even a good one), is only a starting point. Good call.

]]> By: potassium iodide http://economybeat.org/business/economybeat-podcast-9-nuke-pills/comment-page-1/#comment-219 potassium iodide Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:20:00 +0000 http://www.economybeat.org/?p=5406#comment-219 What is so disgusting about being prudent? About being prepared? I think you have to research the topic more than just listening to the NPR story.

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