Blair himself, as he nicely puts it, escalated from the toe-touch story to the "no-touch" story, written from Brooklyn under a made-up dateline.
The fight — allegedly about either turf in Texas or a parking spot — started, the police say, in a bathroom, and then, as the Dallas Morning News put it, "escalated from fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, then to gunfire".
The student, Autumn Bonilla, told FOX59 that she had words with the driver as she disciplined another student, and it escalated from there.
As it escalates rapidly, attention is swinging from the victims and survivors of the catastrophic tsunami damage along the coast to the horrifying possibility of yet greater dangers posed by the compromised reactors.
But as it escalates it is also becoming a magnet for jihadists from other countries who share this poisonous ideology.
"But as it escalates it is also becoming a magnet for jihadists from other countries who share this poisonous ideology," he added.
As it escalates, it is becoming a magnet for jihadists.
But obviously, it's escalated from there".
