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Doomsday mostly on kilter but still too alarmist
Having spent altogether more than 1 year on missile alert as well as many other assorted related assignments, I think the article was good except for Ron Rosenbaum's naive willingness to take crew members' musings as unmitigated fact. A lot of crewmembers do indeed espouse dark-humor but often pass on rumor and half-truths as gospel. They are ...
Posted to The Spectator by QuantumSam on October 22, 2007
careful with those literary references
''Blair is not a wild-eyed Cassandra raising unsupported suspicions.'' Do Aeschylus some justice: Cassandra's curse for failing to bear Apollo a child was to tell the truth but never to be believed. She foretells in gruesome detail the murder of Agamemnon, as she had foretold the fall of Troy, but she was not believed in either ...
Posted to The Spectator by Joe M. on August 31, 2007