“Results from Slate’s ‘Choose Your Own Apocalypse’ poll”

Oh, come on! None of those are enough to “destroy America,” even combined. Almost all of them are self-correcting problems: Loose nukes. A nuclear weapon can only be used once, after which it’s gone. If the supposed terrorists had a large supply, they’d be a problem — but without that, all they can do is …

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“Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by government”

[…] The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property. You can invoke the God card to get away with a lot in this country — but the IRS card always trumps …

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“How many PCs are enough? 5? 10?”

Enough? There’s no such thing! 🙂 There are two laptops, a netbook, and two desktops at our place — not counting several other devices that could technically be called computers, like the iPod Touch (a small computer itself) and the two network-attached storage systems (both special-purpose Linux computers). And then there are the several dead …

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