Having perused today's Times article about the government's push for nuclear preparedness, we've got our weekend plans locked in: curling up with some Elliott Smith records and this 135 page Planning Guide for Response to a Nuclear Detonation (Second Edition, pdf). Published by the Obama administration over the summer, the report introduces readers to such terms as Beta burn (Beta radiation induced skin damage) and LD50 (the amount of a radiation that kills 50% of a sample population). But the main message is that in the event of a nuclear explosion, don't flee. Burrow! The safest place to wait out a nuclear winter is underground, which is why our post-apocalyptic hellscape will be ruled by people who were previously pitied for residing in their parents' basements. (Resisters will be shipped off to Guitar Hero reeducation camps.)
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Basement Dwellers Get Last Laugh in Nuclear Attack
Same-Sex Marriage Blame Game Aims at Paterson, Addabbo
Yesterday City Council Speaker Christine Quinn urged angry New Yorkers to keep the blame focused on the politicians who voted down a bill legalizing gay marriage in the Senate Wednesday. But blame is a burning thing and it makes a fiery ring, and at the center is Governor David Paterson, a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage. Some Democratic party officials believed that Paterson, with his basement-level approval ratings, didn't have any leverage to apply to swing-vote Senators. But others, like suddenly known Staten Island Senator Diane Savino, thinks he could have made the difference.
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