Here in St. Louis and other areas along the Mississippi in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee, there's the potential threat of the New Madrid fault. It occasionally gives us 'little' 5 point whatever shakers from time to time to remind us.

I've read claims that with the icecaps and glaciers melting away to global warming that with the 'weight' of all that ice removed that large sections of the earth which had been 'pressed down' by it will rebound thus triggering more quakes.

Wasn't the last really huge one back in like 1700? That's a long time for the pressure to build up. I think that researchers figured out that there had been a monster quake in the Cascadian zone because of old writing from Japan describing a tsunami of mysterious origin. It turned out to have traveled all the way across the Pacific after a quake in the Pacific Northwest region.

Even the 'heartland' of the US is not immune to quakes. Here in St. Louis and also in our neighbor to the south, Memphis, we wonder what will happen if the New Madrid Seismic Zone reawakens and there's a rerun of what happened in the winter of 1811/1812. Not just one but three massive earthquakes shook our then sparsely populated region at the time. One of the quakes was estimated by scientists to have perhaps been as powerful as an '8' with the other two easily equaling the ones that just devastated parts of Turkey and Syria.

Well, if they're born-again Christian types, Deanna may stay with him because of the whole religious 'marriage, even a bad one, is until death do you part' mindset. Not saying that's the reason, just one possible one along with the financial security aspect. Their daughters are both grown, so the whole 'staying together for the sake of the children' excuse wouldn't seem to factor in any more.

No doubt, and there's probably equivalents of the Murdaughs in other parts of South Carolina as well as in other southern states -- and likely a few US states outside of that region.

'Fudge packing?' Could there be a certain skeleton hiding in Mr. Macho Man Republican Family Value's closet?

They sound similar to that corrupt, entitled Murdaugh clan in South Carolina.

Even after the Herschel Walker debacle, I can see Trump promoting this douche to be the next Governor of Mississippi.

Mississippi Burning.

If he loses this, he might end up having to pawn that Superbowl ring.

Just because someone is a great football player doesn't necessarily imply that they possess a Mensa-level IQ or even one somewhat below that level. Favre's brainpower is likely just a few degrees above room temperature.

Bad advice from whomever it is. Favre is shortly going to learn about something known as the 'Streisand Effect'. He's gonna rue the day he decided to pursue this. The attorneys repping the people he's sueing might uncover all kinds of dirty laundry and shake loose a lot of ugly skeletons in Brett's closet.

Didn't he also supposedly cheat on his wife who was battling breast cancer?

150,000+?! Doing the math -- if most of those people are dead, the final death toll from this disaster will end up anywhere between 175,000 and 200,000. And that's not counting the secondary deaths that might take place if contagious diseases like cholera take hold.

Sounds like a good idea for some kind of horror film. We were up in Mackinaw City, Michigan last summer and rode a boat over to Mackinac Island and drove over that huge bridge to take a side trip to the Upper Peninsula. Bull sharks mutated to be able to survive in colder waters escape from a lake-side aquarium and wreak all kinds of havoc.

A bite to one of her legs with a very 'deep cut' sounds like her femoral artery was severed.

Bull sharks are pretty widespread all over the globe and here in the US, I think there have been reports of them swimming into the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico.

Given her age, I'm guessing that it was breast cancer though it's possible she was battling some other form of this awful disease.

Just in terms of celeb obits alone [not even counting all the rest of the regular news], 2023 has started off pretty rough and there are eleven months to go.

I could see Cazale doing a variety of roles had he lived. He could have been in several of Scorsese's films and maybe even had a recurring role on 'The Sopranos'.

McKean's now the last man standing from the cast of 'Laverne and Shirley' and it's the same with John Astin from 'The Addams Family' after Lisa Loring died.

This incident reminded me of a space tragedy back in 1971 when a Soyuz capsule returning from a mission to a Soviet space station orbiting the earth developed an oxygen leak during re-entry and all three cosmonauts aboard died. The irony was that, unlike the violent destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, the capsule remained intact and there's some film footage of the capsule recovery crew trying to resuscitate the men to no avail.

Jeffrey Dahmer started with animals and so did a lot of other notorious killers.

Hope he gets named, shamed, arrested, a mug shot taken of him and then he gets fired from whatever job he has.