Events

Well, things are happening, and once again that axiom about living in interesting times comes to mind.

In Iran, Mr. A -- no way I'm going to try that name -- got reelected, which is bad news for us, not to mention the half of the country that didn't vote for him. There doesn't appear to be any truth to the rumor that Ralph Nader was a third party vote splitter, though. In North Korea, they're saying that in addition to not being willing to play nice, they want to seriously push getting nuclear weapons. You know things are grim when even China says these people need to be stopped. If this were a Tom Clancy novel, there'd be a combination team of Special Forces, Spetznatz, and Mossad fueling up in a secret base in the south of China, right now. As it is, I understand that Hillary's strapped into a fighter that's on alert standby somewhere in the Indian Ocean. GM's in bankruptcy, but they promise in their ads that things will be better, and that we 'have their word on it'. Curiously, the ads don't mention what that word actually means, or who to call about it. The transition to digital television has occurred, but life doesn't seem to be better, and for some, it's gotten worse. You wonder how they could have avoided knowing what was going to happen, and what they could do, and then you remember: these are people who don't have a lot of resources to get those converter boxes, coupons or not. They're used to getting beaten up by life. Meanwhile, the price of gas is up because the dapper young men in their crisp white shirts are betting that it's going to go up, while economists are worrying that the barely started recession recovery may get strangled by the increase.

You know, I think I'll go bake some cookies.