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Gordon Lightfoot certainly did not need that song for his career. And he brought it to the families of the drowned sailors before he released it to ask for their approval. They all considered it a fitting tribute.
 
Detroit's Maritime Church rings its bell every year on the anniversary of the wreck, once for each sailor lost. Last year they added an extra stroke of the bell for Gordon Lightfoot after his passing.
 
(Sorry, that got my Canadian up a little.) 😌

Gordon Lightfoot certainly did not need that song for his career. And he brought it to the families of the drowned sailors before he released it to ask for their approval. They all considered it a fitting tribute.
 
Detroit's Maritime Church rings its bell every year on the anniversary of the wreck, once for each sailor lost. Last year they added an extra stroke of the bell for Gordon Lightfoot after his passing.
 
(Sorry, that got my Canadian up a little.) 😌

More-original source for Dean's last...
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
 
What scares me is, it's plausible to read this as a separate tactic by Christian nationalists.  Attack science to promote the authority of faith.  They don't *have* to believe it, they may darn well know it's idiotic...so what?  It got through the Tennessee Senate.  That means it's not just wild-eyed conspiracy nuts, to me.

The Republican Study Committee, comprising more than 170 GOP House Republicans, released a budget proposal for 2025 on Wednesday. Among its "high points" are: raising the retirement age; enshrining "life begins at conception" as national law; lowering social security benefits; making Medicare compete with private insurance plans; and general reduction in "entitlements" spending. You can read the text of the proposal here.
 
It should be noted that Republican lawmakers in electorally vulnerable states are already disavowing the proposal. But it's reasonable to assume that this is what the GOP would do if they regain power.
 
Democrats have already started heatedly denouncing it. If they make that a significant part of their campaigning, the Republicans may have handed the Dems the key to a majority in Congress.

Check with the government in your state to make sure that's legal. In many states, and provinces in my country, introducing unsecured human remains including ashes into the environment is barred by law. You don't want to potentially cause your kin problems after you're gone.

Digital Hero #39 includes a mini-setting, War of the Worlds: Champions, set in the same era as H.G. Wells' novel, the end of the 19th Century. The difference in concept is that the toxic "black smoke" weapon used by the Martians, while lethal to the vast majority of humans, in very rare cases induces super-powers, giving humanity something of an equalizer against the Martian technology. Those powers can include super intelligence, so you also get steampunk vehicles and other weapons.

Digital Hero #39 includes a mini-setting, War of the Worlds: Champions, set in the same era as H.G. Wells' novel, the end of the 19th Century. The difference in concept is that the toxic "black smoke" weapon used by the Martians, while lethal to the vast majority of humans, in very rare cases induces super-powers, giving humanity something of an equalizer against the Martian technology. Those powers can include super intelligence, so you also get steampunk vehicles and other weapons.

I usually prefer theatrical cuts of films to "extended editions," but the extended version of Aliens that I've seen adds useful context and deeper meaning to the film IMHO.

Actually, The Legion fits very well with the typical teen hero campaign if you discount the Kryptonians and Daxamites. 
 
They each had a single power, there's plenty of teen angst and romance and while they had less adult supervision, they were more integrated with law enforcement in the form of the Science Police and the United Federation of Planets.

The original Superboy was an exception to the trend of teenage homages to adult superheroes, in that he was explicitly a young Clark Kent before he became the adult Superman. He couldn't be put into stories co-starring the other super sidekicks, because Superman interacted with their mentors as a grownup. That was probably a major incentive for him to adventure in the far future with the Legion of Superheroes, avoiding a temporal paradox.
 
Speaking of the Legion, it used to seem to me like a rather odd and awkward concept. A huge and diverse assemblage of super-powered beings protecting the whole galaxy, with the cooperation and support of government and law enforcement, with a charter, headquarters, training and recruitment programs... yet the entire membership was kids. In fact, they used to have an official upper age limit for membership. That would seem to put an unreasonable burden, and trust, on young shoulders.

I'm really glad Joe Biden and other Democrats have finally taken the gloves off in public against the Republicans. Taking the high road was never going to win for them when their opponents have been wallowing in the mud for years.
 
You just know Donald Trump's 'phone will combust from all the posts he'll make over this.

Did they all walk into a bar together?

I'm really glad Joe Biden and other Democrats have finally taken the gloves off in public against the Republicans. Taking the high road was never going to win for them when their opponents have been wallowing in the mud for years.
 
You just know Donald Trump's 'phone will combust from all the posts he'll make over this.

I'm really glad Joe Biden and other Democrats have finally taken the gloves off in public against the Republicans. Taking the high road was never going to win for them when their opponents have been wallowing in the mud for years.
 
You just know Donald Trump's 'phone will combust from all the posts he'll make over this.

I also thought of the original Captain Marvel, as Billy Batson was a teenager. But he's a bit of an outlier, as well, given that his alter-ego was physically an adult and had the Wisdom of Solomon, making it hard to tell whether he still qualifies as a 'teen superhero'. 
 
Superboy is an interesting wrinkle I hadn't thought of.  IMO, he makes a better candidate as a template for the Teen Champions genre than Spider-man. He's explicitly a less powerful, less experienced version of a 'standard' superhero. One who, at least initially, deals with smaller-scale issues in a relatively restrictive environment. 
 
I might also reference the original Wonder Girl stories, but I don't need the continuity headache that would result right now. 

Deadeye, an undead detective, when the target of a PC's sarcastic comment: "Ha! You kill me... Oh, wait..."
 
Bronze Knight, a Captain America paragon type: "Being super doesn't make us better than anyone else. Just bigger."
 
Slammer, a brick whose father is a famous lawyer, when disparagingly compared to his sire by a villain: "My Dad fights injustice too, with great words. Here's my approach."
 
Facade, a fantasy illusionist wizard, confronting an evil warlord: "You make the world a Hell for your victims. Let me show you Hell."
 
As the god Apollo in the Champions Universe, when a PC called him just a figment of people's imagination (I had this one ready): "Indeed? And what were you before your parents rutted together? A streak of slime? And what tiny fraction of my lifetime ago was that, exactly?"

That coyote really is a genius. His schemes to have the roadrunner for dinner were wildly creative. In a just universe they should have worked a hundred times over.
 
But given that he could afford to buy all that Acme hardware, he could have saved himself a lot of grief if he just ordered takeout.

There are always mistakes. I used to be a newspaper editor, so I'm very familiar with the concept and responsible for more than a few. This particular introduced error just struck me as amusing, that's all.

Couldn't resist for long, especially since I'd seen part of the book when I was a Hero Patreon subscriber. It's looking very good so far, although I have a sneaking suspicion that when the name was changed from Gaslight to Victorian Hero someone might have rather carelessly run a find and replace through the text…
 

This occured during the Regan years (during the air traffic controllers dispute) We had been in a long campaign which involved a 'coup' against the Canadian government, which we foiled, then traced the group back to a base near Curchill Mabitoba. After fighting our way into the base, defeating the evil doers, we discovered that the leaders were space aliens, who escaped in a private jet fleeing southwards, I was in command of the group, and contacted the Canadian forces base outside of Winnipeg, I ordered air force units to scramble and force the jet down. When they refused, claiming to be FBI agents I told the pilots "I don't care who they claim to be they are violating Canadian airspace."
     Two weeks later, The Calgary Herald, ran a cartoon, "two Mounties, one mounted the other dismounted wearing the red serge uniforms (which are actually dress wear) holding his hosre's reins and a smoking pistol pointed to the ground, a short distance away a figure is buried to his shoulders wearing a cape, on his chest a logo 'a diamond with an S inset. It's captioned "I don't care who he was he was violating Canadian Air Space". 

That coyote really is a genius. His schemes to have the roadrunner for dinner were wildly creative. In a just universe they should have worked a hundred times over.
 
But given that he could afford to buy all that Acme hardware, he could have saved himself a lot of grief if he just ordered takeout.

It's funny, during TOS the Romulans were depicted as tough and aggressive, but also disciplined and honorable. While Klingons were shown to be deceitful, sneaky, and manipulative. In the TNG era those racial/cultural roles were essentially reversed.

That coyote really is a genius. His schemes to have the roadrunner for dinner were wildly creative. In a just universe they should have worked a hundred times over.
 
But given that he could afford to buy all that Acme hardware, he could have saved himself a lot of grief if he just ordered takeout.