Windy Newscasters

I spent the weekend enjoying myself at Bubonicon, but every so often I'd check the news to see whether Hurricane Irene had destroyed the East Coast, as our bold media establishment had been predicting for days.Of course the hurricane had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it made landfall in the Carolinas, and did only a modest amount of damage and produced only an insignificant death toll, which proved to be a catastrophe for the newscasters if not for the country.Not that the n...