Or perhaps more aptly the Mt. St. Helens of books, since it seemed possible that at any moment some subterranean shift in it might cause a cataclysm.
Indeed, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that the firing of Mueller would "cause a cataclysm in Washington".
Indeed, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that the firing of Mueller would "cause a cataclysm in Washington".
"The Road" is not concerned with explaining what caused this cataclysm.
Nancy Lieder, a self-proclaimed contactee who claims to receive messages from aliens through an implant in her brain, stated that Hale Bopp was a fiction designed to distract the population from the coming arrival of "Nibiru" or "Planet X", a giant planet whose close passage would disrupt the Earth's rotation, causing global cataclysm.
In "On the Origin of Species," published in the fall of 1859, Darwin heaped scorn on the catastrophist approach: So profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world.
California will face structural deficits of about $20 billion a year for quite a while, according to Mac Taylor, the state's non-partisan legislative analyst.The immediate cause for this cataclysm was the recession.
They do not identify the cataclysm's cause, which Goldman claims is philosophical.
This is a unique extinction because it's the hand of man driving it, as opposed to volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes or other cataclysms that caused previous extinctions.
Mercifully, the producers, including the tough-guy documentarian Thom Beers, are not causing an actual cataclysm for the benefit of their cameras.
