glacier

Look, a snaffle!

Giant Squid!!!! (from Canadian Roadside Attractions, of course).

If Moore is taking the moral high ground, then shouln't he hold himself (and the public) to a higher standard, rather than say, 'well, they propagandize the news, so can I.' I think we can ask for more.

There's always Skin So Soft - Keeps off the little gnats that seem undeterred by DEET.

Yeah, I just picked up The Scar , too, since it finally came out in paperback - Read Perdido Street Station last year. Blew me away. The Things They Carried was the first O'Brien book I read- a good Vietnam narrative.

I hate when this happens.

I was thinking of "Going After Cacciato" by Tim O'Brien for continued commentary/satire of warfare.

Just finished: The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan A History of Warfare, by John Keegan I, Robot, by Asimov currently diving into Catch-22

Babylon 5. Any tv program Harlan Ellison will put his name on is worthy. Much darker and more complex than the treks. However, the writing in the original series, including such SF luminaries as Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, and David Gerrold, for all the cheesy special effects and such, is still generally better than the current crop. The same authors did (and still do) add their creative talents to the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits.

not work safe

So be it: A banana-hammock of climbers.

'Morale' booster...

A spray of climbers

My kid got your honor student pregnant.

God was my copilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.

Only one criteria, as I see it: Sufficient damage to national infrastructure in that the mechanisms to operate an election have been significantly compromised.

"Caution: I drive like you do." (seen on the back of a fuel tanker)

I don't think that having a contingency plan is totally out of the question, but the context in which the administration seems to be bringing up the subject is suspect. Perhaps define affect? The 9/11 attacks drectly affected 3,400 voters, in that they perished in that attack. It also indirectly affected the psyche of NYC and the country, but not so much that the country ground to a literal halt (air travel excepted). If the attack had happened on 11/2 in a presidential election year, rather than 9/11, the country would have gone on with the elections, although, like Spain, the outcome of the voting may have been altered. The scope of a terrorist attack, even in a heavily populated metro area, would have to be truly massive to physically prevent people from reaching the polls, like something on a nuclear scale. So what is the criteria that would need to be met in order to postpone an election? After all, a presidential election was held in 1812, after war had been declared in June of that year, U.S. forces had lost a number of battles against British-Canadian forces, and british troops were on American territorial soil.

Nah, this is Layton's.

Agreed - the elections have not been postponed, even during the Civil War, the most tumultuous time in our history. Hence, something shocking, albeit minor, like a terrorist attack, should have no effect on the ability of our country to complete an election. For instance, a subway blast in New York is not going to prevent someone in Kansas from going to the polls. If using that metric, then we should postpone an election because there was a blizzard in Minnesota that kept some people out of the polls.

But fortunately they are well-equipped in the body oil category.

Stupidity, primarily. I started front-pointing, but since Carter made it down without incident, I glissaded down on one hip in short slides, and carried the bruises for it. glad to hear that LW's lacerations weren't too bad after all, but it probably will hurt his modelling career.

Looks like I'll have to support the terrorists...

22.9 - skinny sportclimber