Titanic, meet iceberg

White House budget office directs federal agencies to shut down

"Planet of the Apes (1968 Movie End Edit)" (Watch on YouTube)

A poll

[Poll #1936588]

The hilarious thing is our conservatives spent a lot of their time in Opposition honing similarly disruptive techniques so once they lose power we can expect them to try to cripple our government in much the same way as in the US (taking into account differences in the two systems).

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Unrelated comment: over the last ten or twenty entries in your journal, I'm seeing a disturbing frequency (low, but nonzero) of comments from regular posters that are just totally blank. A few with 'edited at' italic lines, but most not. Posters that I do not recall having a history of posting blank comments.

For example, on this post they are, in order:
realinterrobang's second followup to martianmooncrab's comment
kithrup's followup to neowolf2's comment
realinterrobang's followup to xiphias' comment, and to jhetley's comment
beamjockey's comment (so it's not just followups to comments)

Presumably this will be greatly affected by what you think actually happened to Detroit

What would a Detroit-style urban bankruptcy IN SPACE! look like?

Foyle's War: The Eternity Ring question

It's set in 1946 and involves "the Eternity Ring,a group of Soviet sympathizers bent on betraying Britain's atomic secrets". What was the state of British atom bomb research at this particular time?

(not a veiled put-down of Britain: I don't know much about the British nuclear weapons programs)

So, what do you think SHIELD will follow

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Clarkesworld Podcast November 2010: On the Banks of the River Lex (N. K. Jemisin)

On the Banks of the River Lex (N. K. Jemisin)

Read by Kate Baker

In a world where the humans have vanished, what are the gods - dependent on worship - to do?

I don't often compare Jemisin to Simak but that was who I thought of.