Scare Tactics

[unclef]

Dang! No sooner do I drop the long-standing nihilist/hellraiser bit, become a parent and see at last the beauty and worth of all life when the tv news tells me the Cold War's on again and nuclear conflagration may yet be our dark destiny. Huh. Not that all the terrible weapons magically vanished with the coming of glasnost but in recent years the

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[dan_g]

"But perhaps the child would be better off if her parents were flash-fried and she had to survive a Mad max-style post-apocalyptic waste land herself. "

But who would teach her about the horrors of Radiation mutation and how to escape the giant insects and lizards that we all know populate the nuclear wasteland.

[unclef]

Ah, she'll figure it out.

[unclef]

Ch 4 is govt-owned? How so, sir? (I'd research this startling assertion meself but as you know, so little time these days

[unclef]

Ah, the old IBA. At least it wasn't the Ministry of Truth or some such. But yes, a bit boring.
See there's been another BB racism blah blah. I grow weary.

Tooting lamp post

[anonymous]

Fear is a scam