"I read it for consolation when times get dire," he said.
There is a risk that not all the settlement cash will come in for instance, if the tobacco firms' legal difficulties get dire enough to bankrupt them.
But when things get dire, there must be tolerance for occasional bouts of brown grass and dying plants, as the authorities restrict watering.
Passengers from LAX to JFK and ORD to IAH have resigned themselves to hunger, deriving comfort from being near enough to their knees to eat them, should things get dire.
Morpurgo, who has been critical of government policy before, went on to get "dire" O-level results, A-levels that were no better and a third-class degree at university.
Things began getting dire with the first official Olympic mascot, Misha the bear cub, living emobidment of the 1980 Moscow Games, who was supplemented by Vigri, some kind of baby seal, for the yachting events in Tallinn, Estonia.
Only the food and water could be rationed, and the captain of the West Kebar, the last man to board lifeboat No. 4, was strict: a good captain makes sure things get dire as slowly as possible instead of all at once.
But recently, Leuzzi says, things have gotten dire.
If things get dire, the site may turn to its readers for support.
