The TV news lead with footage shot on the White House lawn before dawn.
The Vice President was caught prowling the grounds like some ancient bald werewolf, naked from the waist down, bits of rusted clockwork falling out of his ass like rabbit droppings. He'd ripped open the front of his shirt and unsealed a blood-encrusted hatch in his chest. The Vice President was holding his own heart in his left hand, a grey and withered thing, and was repeatedly punching it with his right hand. After eight or nine blows, it started twitching. Satisfied, he re-installed the near-terminal meat in his chest. It was only then that he noticed the camera. The Vice President snarled, "Of COURSE I'm still fit to lead the country!"
The news kindly glossed over the apparent error in his comment.
[Warren Ellis, meta: fastfiction]
The Vice President was caught prowling the grounds like some ancient bald werewolf, naked from the waist down, bits of rusted clockwork falling out of his ass like rabbit droppings. He'd ripped open the front of his shirt and unsealed a blood-encrusted hatch in his chest. The Vice President was holding his own heart in his left hand, a grey and withered thing, and was repeatedly punching it with his right hand. After eight or nine blows, it started twitching. Satisfied, he re-installed the near-terminal meat in his chest. It was only then that he noticed the camera. The Vice President snarled, "Of COURSE I'm still fit to lead the country!"
The news kindly glossed over the apparent error in his comment.
[Warren Ellis, meta: fastfiction]
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Re: Heart Of America
Sat, May 31, 2008 - 11:43 AMRALEIGH, N.C. - Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow deep in the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word.
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It's a lot like Groundhog Day — and the results are worth just about as much.
"The hairs on the back of my neck don't stand up," ho-hums Craig Fugate, director of emergency management for Florida, the state that got raked by four hurricanes — three of them "major" — in 2004. When it comes to preparing, he says, these long-range forecasts "are not useful at all."
