… to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming.
Queensland, Australia is suffering massive flooding like no time since the 19th century. The Middle East is ablaze with citizen protest movements taking to the streets to oust their US supported dictators. We just found out that the most plausible theory for the greatest extinction event in history — The Permian Extinction 250 million years ago which killed of 90% of all living species — quite probably was caused by a massive infusion of carbon emissions as a result volcanic activity ago burning massive underground coal deposits (remind you of anything similar occurring today?) Prices for gasoline and food are skyrocketing around the globe.
Yet, with all this important news, people on blogs both right and left will spend all day talking about the President’s State of the Union address and the two Republican rebuttals (one just very lame and one that simply drove itself off the deep end of Crazytown). All this for a speech that by the end of the week (if not sooner) will be forgotten by almost everyone including our 24/7 news media.
These speeches are nothing more than Kabuki theater for the Inside the Beltway tribe. Meanwhile global historical events that will change our world are occurring out of sight and out of mind, at least if you go by what you see and hear from our 24/7 News Media reports in the US of A.
Well, all I can say is welcome to life in our new and improved Gilded Age. It only gets worse from here on out for as far as the eye can see. But I’m sure American Idol and the Super Bowl will keep us all happy (for a while) as we decide which bills to pay and which have to be put off so we can eat our Tostitos, drink our mediocre Lite Beer and watch Television to drown out the noise of a world that spiraling down into multiple disasters ever and ever faster.
