Is it awesome... or merely very cool?

I regret the daily, even hourly, use of awesome! to express mild approval, when the antiquated Neat! or Dig it! or the still cool Cool! are hyperbole enough to high-five the fact that we will meet later for a beer or that you have, after much ado, unclogged the sink drain. Because if these minor miracles are awesome!, then what remains to us to express actual awe? ~~ Priscilla Long

Read about a truly awesome, yet very cool volcano in this American Scholar column by our friend and editor, Priscilla Long. Warning: It has absolutely nothng to do about media or politics. 

Comments

[Fremont]

Fucking awesome! Thanks!

[Pete]

Not cool. Not right away. Warm. Very warm. Then, for many years, cool.

[Chucks]

Wait until the fucking democrats figure out who owns the property or, in the event the government owns it, who the surounding property owners are so that they can tax the shit out of them for the energy that it produces and then have the EPA go after them when the governments tax revenue stops should it burn out.
The government will need the income to pay off the reparations to gay people for declining them their "rights" to enjoy the pain of divorce like straight people.
It could happen.

[Pete]

Chucks, the volcano referenced here was in Indonesia and erupted aeons ago. I doubt democrats, fucking or otherwise, cared at all. You could at least follow the link before spouting off.

[Chucks]

There would be no fun in that Mr Pete. None at all.

[Chucks]

By the way Mr Pete, the picture above is in Hawaii. It is a beautiful picture of a valcano, but not the one from 74,000 years ago. Kodak wasn't arround to secure a picture of that.
IT MUST BE TAXED!!!!

[Pete]

My bad. Thought it was a rendition, not a photo. Still pretty impressive. But if it's in Hawaii, it's almost certainly in the national park. So it already belongs to the guvmint.

[bald bob]

One of the finest things gov't has ever done. It should bring revenues for decades to come.