More egoboo: My letter gets published

Recently I wrote an entry disagreeing with Gale Norton’s column claiming that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is an important national security issue. In short, I argue that America is better off in a national security sense (putting aside ecological issues for discussion purposes) preserving our own portion of the finite supply of oil until others have exhausted theirs; instead the real shortterm drilling interest is oil industry profits. I also sent a slight variant as a letter to the editor of the San Jose Mercury News, where I read the column, and they published it. Due to the paper’s shortsighted web policies, the letter is unlikely to be available after 12/2/01 and for some reason the Wayback Machine doesn’t archive the newspaper’s site. Still, I love seeing my name on paper even if the boost is illusory.