Heir's upset about all this talk about the beach about end-of-the-beach, end-of-the-beach, just because of that neighboring beach.  We will get to talk about what we believe are the politics of the latter soon enough, but the Heir gets it the most from the cigar assistant, who also literally worries about an asteroid collision.  The cigar assistant said he heard about a possible asteroid collision from Paranoid Prairie Companion on kHz 17250 this morning, which featured a discredited astronomer from Florida Lakes University who claimed that there's no way we can't have a collision in the next twenty years that won't result in the deaths of 80% of the population of North America.  The discredited astronomer showed charts of North America before and after the future asteroid collision, in which it will look like a mostly sunken archipelago.  This despite the fact that it's impossible to show charts on shortwave radio (we're not talking about the fax stations by the way).  The astronomer claims that it will be the sexually immoral U.S. states, and all of Canada, and the entire Caribbean that will suffer the deaths, slowly and horribly, with the most drug-ridden areas of Central America surviving.  After all, you got to take the good with the bad.  Heir got facetious and said, well I suppose they must have also got into this thing with end-of-the-beach on shortwave, and the assistant claims that they did.  Heir would greatly prefer that the end-of-the-beach paranoid/depressed crowd would just snap out of it.