Where's the Beef?

Dear Lord,

What is this world (and, for that matter, the after world) coming to?

Yesterday I learned that the Pope is raising the bar for people who would be saints. The New York Times reported:

New procedures were announced Monday calling for more ''rigor'' and ''sobriety'' by bishops when deciding to begin the process of beatification and in determining the required miracles.

Today I learn that the state of Massachusetts would raise the bar for nuclear power plants that want to be nuclear power plants (again). As reported by The Brattleboro Reformer:

[Governor of Massachusetts]Patrick administration officials and Attorney General Martha Coakley say they are concerned about shortcomings in the process identified in a report released last September by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's own inspector general's office.

Among those plants seeking renewals are the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth and the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, just over the border in Vernon, Vt.

The audit said that in many cases NRC staff members charged with reviewing license application renewals "did not describe any review methodology for operating experience or provide any specific support for the staff's conclusions" that the plants were safe to continue operating.

Another coinky-dink? It ain't over 'till it's over, Lord.

Amen,

Fake-Rob