The CBC is reporting that the female crew member who died when the Bounty replica sank was a descendant of Fletcher Christian. [link]
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
'War Stories'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Oct 30, 2012 5:15:28 am PDT #27744 of 30001
hip deep in pie
askye - Oct 30, 2012 5:18:17 am PDT #27745 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I'm fine. Didn't lose power. I slept really badly last night so I'm only now just awake.
Vermont got lucky and there's wind damage and power outages but it's nothing compared to the rest of the country.
Tom Scola - Oct 30, 2012 5:19:15 am PDT #27746 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They're not saying how long the subway will be out, but I will be really surprised if anything at all is running for the next few days, and I'm guessing weeks before the system is completely back up. It's in bad shape.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2012 5:21:51 am PDT #27747 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Vermont got lucky and there's wind damage and power outages but it's nothing compared to the rest of the country.
My brother never lost power, and just has some tree limbs down.
§ ita § - Oct 30, 2012 5:32:22 am PDT #27748 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
yes, 66 people died in the Caribbean
"More than 69" was the last West Indies total I saw yesterday.
Tom Scola - Oct 30, 2012 5:38:32 am PDT #27749 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And Vortex checked in on FB.
Theodosia - Oct 30, 2012 5:40:41 am PDT #27750 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
More and more I think the Weather Channel calling it a "Superstorm" is correct.
In some ways, it would have been better had DC gotten a direct hit -- not because I wish anyone that much destruction but I suspect it will take repeatedly hitting some lawmakers over the head in their own backyards before they take climate change and emergency response seriously.
tommyrot - Oct 30, 2012 5:44:13 am PDT #27751 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I suspect it will take repeatedly hitting some lawmakers over the head in their own backyards before they take climate change and emergency response seriously.
I suspect it will take more such disasters hitting the US--eventually people will vote these fuckers out.
Who knows? Maybe Romney will win and Republicans will go back to believing in climate change again since whey won't have a Democrat in the Oval Office to oppose in everything he does.
meara - Oct 30, 2012 5:48:42 am PDT #27752 of 30001
Ugh. Why do I hate mornings so much?
Sadly all my work is here and I can't justify sitting n the hotel all day looking at pictures online.
Juliebird - Oct 30, 2012 5:49:07 am PDT #27753 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
The tree outside my apartment, which is growing in the cut-out hillside, 8 feet from my living wall, came down. Now, you'd think the natural way for it to fall would be downhill, and that's the way the canopy was leaning, but I think the winds pushed it uphill. Man, this was the *best* night for that tree to fall!