Not looking especially good in Old Hio right now. It's even on the front page of das Beeb, although that may be because I'm coming from the States. I'm astonished that no-one got killed, especially with it happening late at night like that.
Whilst following along on the NWS map last night, I saw a tornado warning box pop up entirely inside another warning box, which I've never seen before. Overlapping, especially as the line moves east, isn't that unusual, but this was entirely inside. I'm guessing it represented a refinement of the earlier warning box.
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Time to choose a new Chairman of the EC. Nigel Farage would do a great job, I'm sure!
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I'm pleased to see Modi winning by such a landslide in India. I normally consider the government of India largely irrelevant, but I'm pleased to see a nationalist win so convincingly. It helps me to believe that sanity may finally be returning to the world.
The BBC criticize him as "divisive", which seems to be one of the internationalist/multiculturalist dog-whistle words to describe a majoritarian populist. At 63% of the vote, he's certainly more unifying than any of the other candidates.
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Yankees are pounding along in first. Cubs are barely holding off the Beer Factory Employees.
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