catastrophe

Honduran Prison Fire Kills 350

Caity Weaver · 02/15/12 11:07PM


More than 350 people are dead after fire consumed a crowded prison in Honduras late Tuesday night. The official word is that the blaze started when an inmate purposely set fire to his own mattress. Some 100 inmates died in their cells, as firefighters were unable to locate keys to free them.

We Can Always Make Money Betting on Disaster

Hamilton Nolan · 01/07/11 04:44PM

The Way We Live Now: catastrophically. We can scarcely enumerate the varied and horrifying catastrophes befalling us at any given moment! Snow! Blight! Unemployment! Scams! Theft! Urban decay! The only way to survive is to be on the catastrophe's side!