She’s an absolute Jezebel!

They may spring from a neglected campfire, kindled for cooking or warming, or from a coalpit where charcoal is being made

Kunstler resists the doomer label—“I’ve never been a complete collapsitarian,” he says—but the fact that one of his bombs detonates in Washington on “twelve twenty-one” is likely to please superstitious adherents of the Maya calendar, which concludes its first cycle on what is now the Internet’s most popular day of reckoning: December 21, 2012.

No flattering praises daub my stone, My frailties and my faults to hide;