re: #7 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’ll never forget that made-for-TV movie Mt. St. Helens, with Art Carney playing Harry Truman. The actual eruption was a real hoot—nice red, runny pahoehoe coursing down the streets (!) of Cougar WA….

Scientific ignorance doesn’t come much more WTFITS-y than that.

That was a damn big volcano.