Nobody pays any attention or remembers anything

We been there before.  Twice, even.  Cascading grid failure each time.  All the Chicken Littles running around the northeast (and that includes the Gummint) need to fucking GET OVER this “Terrorists!  Terrorists!  BOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGA!!!!!” response to every large-system mechanical failure that happens.

The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965

New York Blackout of 1977

 

The besotted lamp in Shirley Maclaine’s bathroom is reincarnated.  Fnord.

About Marchbanks

I'm an elderly tech analyst, living in Texas but not of it, a cantankerous and venerable curmudgeon. I'm yer SOB grandpa who has NO time for snot-nosed, bad-mannered twerps.
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