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  The Insane World of Intersectional Climate Change BY   STEVEN TUCKER   Once upon a time, linking climate change directly back to homosexuality was almost enough to get you sectioned. Remember 10 years ago, during the floods of 2014, when UKIP local councillor  David Silvester  was widely mocked after writing a letter to then-PM David Cameron, warning that the bad weather of the day was due to Dismal Dave’s acting “arrogantly against the Gospel” by planning to legalise gay marriage, thereby angering God Almighty and causing Him to unleash “storms, disease, pestilence and war” upon us all? Today, the situation is kind of the reverse, and we are now exhorted to propitiate the angry climate-gods after all – otherwise they will punish those homosexuals who walk amongst us with terrible deluges and inundations of a new kind, as shown by the  Daily Sceptic   reporting  last week on a quite pathetic  story  in the  Independent , headlined ‘How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian

  A Bridge Too Far Infrastructure as metaphor RADIO FAR SIDE Unless you’ve been sleeping under a bridge, then you’ve heard that a container ship lost power on March 26th, and drifted into a support pylon on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor, which set off a catastrophic collapse of the bridge, port traffic, and one of the city’s primary commuter routes. Baltimore was founded by a 1632 charter from Charles I, to Cecil Calvert, Baron Baltimore of Ireland. The name Baltimore comes from the Irish " Baile an Tí Mhóir ," meaning “city of the Big House,” and “big house” is a term used by slaves on the plantations for the main residence, or the master’s house. It is also a common slang term for a prison, or similarly to a central or primary government structure. Wait, it gets better. This event couldn’t be more packed with symbolism if David Lynch had directed the scene. A Singapore-registered container vessel named  “MV Dali”  appears to have succumbed to tainted fuel