As I’ve said here before, Madsen’s actions made utterly no sense from an engineering perspective, nor did his alibi. This article omits an important change in his story - in the BBC article, he’s now claiming he sunk the sub planning to commit suicide. How you plan on accomplishing this in 20 feet of water with a boat…

Oh, I know, but explaining to a college kid that yes, you do have to do several hours of prep work might get through to them more than #1 and #3, even if the concept of the price of that time might be something they’re not consciously familiar with yet in their young life.

1. $60 is just not worth going to Small Claims over unless there’s a hell of a lot of other damages associated in associated equities.

I had this comforting although unlikely thought that with the delay, maybe he was moved to a larger hospice room and members of his band could play him off in a last, private acoustic show. Hearing is the last sense to go.

As it turns out, it’s pretty simple economics.

You mean the torture of the POWs or that she’d argued that they were war criminals since it didn’t apply to them? The series talks about both.

Not a counterpoint per se, but I watched Episode 9 of Ken Burns’ Vietnam War series last week and something in it is worth noting.

Bummer. On the cancer side, how quickly will it met, and is the chemo you mentioned relatively effective?

I actually got a fairly state of the art Geiger counter for free recently. Was going to dump it on Ebay or such, but then thought again and it’s in my emergency kit.

I may have thought too much about this already.

Not really, outside of normal Trump administration issues.

Yeah, even though I’m gathering he still has tenure, I suspect after that kind of pay-for-publish scandal he was going to have a difficult time getting funding for anything else of note unless he kept down that path. If you’re gonna go dive off the deep end, might as well get a running start I guess.

I wasn’t aware that’d he gone so far off the rails. It’s a real shame since he had shown some chops before.

It’d be interesting to track these kids into adulthood and see how they do with their own relationships, since our skills in them initially come from watching and imitating our parents.

I’m curious if she covers the role of the flu in the 1918 US elections, in which a number of historians have blamed it for the low turnout that ended up switching control of both houses of Congress that cycle.

Whatever else may be said about Hefner, his contribution to American journalism through the mid 1980s remains impressive.

This probably won’t make it out of the greys, but what Hefner did in the first 20 years of Playboy for journalism cannot be understated.

Wilson’s legacy is way too complex to discuss on kinja, but keep in mind this one wasn’t his - the Jones Act was passed after the Republicans had taken over Congress in 1918 (which historians feel was in part due to the impact of the Spanish flu), and based on the timing Edith almost certainly was the one who actually…

Nothing against the James, but the problem for me is that I can’t get Deepwater out of my head when I see that class. Still drives me nuts.

Not really. It’s been years since I was current on the math, but unless things have changed drastically it’s a pretty big hit for the huge container ships to not do a direct route to a rail hub.