  Budden's energy nonconservation paradox is dispelled herein by recognizing
that pole approach to the spatial origin from below in the complex plane can be
resolved into a real principal value plus $-i\pi$ times a Dirac delta, the
imaginary coefficient whereof supplies just the right amount of localized
dissipation to equilibrate the energy budget precisely, regardless of whether
wave incidence be up or down. Only the reflectionless downward wave incidence
remains as a counterintuitive challenge to physical anticipation, but at least
a challenge liberated from its former onus of energy nonconservation.
