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A science fiction author blogs his battle with cancer — Simon Owens on my journey back into cancer and chemo hell.
Geothermal without the Earthquakes — An underground “heat nest” design avoids the need to fracture the rock.
Robert Fitzpatrick Spent Life Savings Telling People World Will End May 21, 2011 — What you going to do on the 22nd, smart guy?
FLASHBACK: In 1983, Reagan Warned Of ‘Incalculable Damage’ If Debt Ceiling Wasn’t Raised — Ronald Reagan: Socialist icon. I’m sure Rush Limbaugh can explain this away.
?otD: Fuzzy Nation or Little Fuzzy?
5/17/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.75 hours (finalized galley edits on Endurance)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.25 hours (fitful, plus napping)
Weight: 232.2
Currently reading: Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
Posted: 5:34 am Tue May 17 2011 |
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Stephen A. Watkins
May 17th, 2011 at 10:08 amOn one hand, of course, I see people like the linked-to Robert Fitzpatrick as idiots, blissfully traipsing their way down a rabbit-hole that goes nowhere. (Even if you believe in a literal judgment day, it makes no sense to fritter away your lifesavings because of it.)
On the other… I rather see people like him as victims… victims of the the Harold Campings of the world. And so in that vein I wonder: when May 22nd comes and passes without the world having ended the day before, will folks like Camping be prosecuted for fraud? Will his victims be compensated for the financial losses incurred when they blindly followed him into his silly little abyss?