Shall we play a game? While I think that Slate’s Apoca-matrix of end of the world options skews too heavily on the side of survivability, I may be too enthusiastically pessimistic due to my own engagement with the subject.

Follow the link to experiment with 144 apoc-a-variables, such as “China Unloads US Treasuries”, “December [...]

BldgBlog is required daily reading for anyone with an internet connection (IMNSHO), but this post, #SKYFAIL, which ponders a windless reverse to J.G. Ballard’s mega-wind apocalypse novel, The Wind From Nowhere, has such great cover shots of one of my favourite books that I feel compelled to point folks in its direction.  Oh and [...]

From the ever brilliant BldgBlog, we get former KGB analyst Igor Panarin’s envisioning of the distribution of Post-American America, as explained in the Wall Street Journal.  Panarin predicts that the US will “disintegrate” in the Summer of 2010 and that it will break into six regions.  While Panarin’s handy map seems both naive [...]

One of the funny things about living in San Pedro is the nuclear attack footprint of the South Bay. Being both one of the world’s largest harbors, being near the core of the American high-tech aerospace industry and much of the West Coast’s refining capacity, I remember once learning that there were 19 [...]

How can the aesthetics of the sentence below be denied?

At the Memorial Shooting Center in Houston, a popular gun store and firing range that shares a building with a church, managers said they sold out their stock of assault weapons a day after the election and are now adding orders, at more than [...]