David Stockman is what’s known as a “spectacular failure”: A high flyer who climbs to great heights and then spins out of control and augers into the earth with afterburners roaring. An aspiring Olympic diver who somersaults off the 10-meter platform into an empty pool. You g[...]
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January 25th, 2014 - 1:12 pm § in Misc.
Book Review: Seattle’s Inevitable “Big One”
Oh no! Not another “an earthquake is coming!” book. Yeah, but at least it’s not another earthquake apocalypse movie. The problem with a book warning that Seattle sits on a fault zone, and has a shoving and grinding tectonic plate just offshore, is that we can’t do a damn thi[...]