The fireworks show had an unplanned, extended ending as one of the rail cars on the bridge used as the pyrotechnic launch pad caught fire. While the fire caused no danger to festivalgoers, the Knoxville Fire Department did delay the departure of boat traffic from the area while its fire boat doused the small flames with a water gun.
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Thanks to the surge of baby boomers in their twilight years, resources to provide for the elderly are dwindling precipitously; a grey-haired Congress has passed measures to increase taxes on young workers to fund the care of the old. Cassandra Devine is incensed. A year-old Washington strategic communications consultant, she rants late one night on her blog that American youth should rise against this fiscal tyranny of senior citizens who were responsible for making a mess of social security in the first place, and who are now poised to embed the system in deeper debt.
It strikes a nerve: while demonstrators storm the golf courses of America's gated communities for the very mature, Cassandra pushes her modest proposal a step further, suggesting the introduction of a policy of 'Voluntary Transitioning': tax incentives for people to kill themselves before the age of Cassandra calls it a 'meta-political device', intended only to stimulate debate.
But when one ambitious politician decides to take it up as a central tenet of his presidential campaign, she finds herself a reluctant but essential cog in his political machine as he goes up against a hard-liner from the Society for the Protection of Every Ribonucleic Molecule. Like a wittier West Wing, Boomsday takes a rollicking, entertaining look at the machinations inside Washington. Strongly informed by Buckley's experience as an American political insider and journalist, it makes perfect light reading for policy wonks.
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