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Sinatra and Xavier confront the past, returning to the harrowing day that brought them to Paradise.
posted by Stanczyk on Feb 25, 2025 - 15 comments

“Birds of a Feather” is a beautiful love letter to family and community. The show is doing an excellent job of incorporating human-like nuances into Harry’s character. Little by little, he’s starting to acclimate to his surroundings and, well, become one of them. Naturally, this will provide fodder for internal conflict when Harry inevitably finds his device. Can he really decimate the planet after befriending some humans? (geekgirlauthority.com)
posted by sammyo on Mar 5, 2021 - 7 comments

A fisherman finds a severed foot in the lake, [more inside]
posted by sammyo on Mar 3, 2021 - 11 comments

In his first week at the clinic, Harry struggles to diagnose a strange condition: human emotion. [more inside]
posted by Major Clanger on Feb 7, 2021 - 7 comments

Pushed to his breaking point, a master welder in a small town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains quietly fortifies a bulldozer with 30 tons of concrete and steel and seeks to destroy those he believes have wronged him. [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Aug 31, 2020 - 1 comment

The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert —and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis on Sep 20, 2019 - 2 comments

Act 1: The NRA is a Cult

Act 2: Alt-Right Killers

Doug Bruce Ruined Colorado

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posted by numaner on Mar 8, 2018 - 1 comment