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Overnight Open Thread (10-15-2014) - Clearing the Spool EditionJust a little potpourri of topics that didn't make it into a real ONT. "I watched a documentary in the 80's where they showed that by November 2015, GE would develop a small automotive Fusion reactor that would run on banana peels and beer. It was called "Mr. Fusion"... I've been putting off my vehicle purchases until then... Only a year to go now!" Houston Mayor Backs Off From Sermon Subpoenas - But the Witch Hunt Continues As reported by KTRH Mayor Parker admitted that the subpoenas were too broad, and that the pastors' sermons should not have been included. "It's not about what did you preach on last Sunday," she said. "It should have been clarified, it will be clarified." City Attorney David Feldman had an odd admission of his own: that he had not reviewed the subpoenas before they were issued. "When I looked at it I felt it was overly broad, I would not have worded it that way myself," said Feldman. "It's unfortunate that it has been construed as some effort to infringe upon religious liberty." It's still not clear why the city thinks it should be able to rummage around in the churches' financial details and private communications for any references to the mayor or homosexuality in general when there's absolutely no evidence that a crime was committed. Well other than a potential thought crime that is. The Walking Dead in an Age of Anxiety: Why We're Obsessed With Zombies Something I once wrote about a long, long time ago. Here Michael Totten also has some thoughts: With the end of the Cold War, however, the threat of total destruction eased. Political theorists talked about the triumph of liberal democracy and the opening of a new age of peace and prosperity. Postapocalyptic scenarios on film and television were rarer and tended to be set in the future, as in 1999's The Matrix. Zombies weren't really part of the picture. With such cataclysms, man-made or natural, comes the risk of social breakdown that makes us so apprehensive. Shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in 2012, residents in parts of New York City armed up with booby traps, baseball bats, and bows and arrows to protect themselves from potential looters. "Bow and arrow," wrote Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic. "Think about that for a minute. In New York City. This is exactly the appeal of The Walking Dead. . . . A zombie invasion is simply a metaphor for any situation in which the government cannot protect its citizens."
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