I heard a report on the radio this morning (while driving my big SUV to Starbucks) that Sydney, Australia, will soon be uninhabitable because of drought and rising temperatures.
Up until a couple of weeks ago, we had the warmest winter on record here in the greater Boston area. In the midst of that time, I had watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", which basically says we're fucked.
A couple of my favorite TV shows are 24, in which we are always in danger of terrorist induced annilhilation, Battlestar Galactica (Really!), where the last of the human race is desperately trying to escape being wiped out by it's own technology (the Cylons). Yes, I like some comedies like Larry David, and The Office, but really, they're all about discomfort.
"The Road", by Cormac McCarthy was my "favorite" book that I've read in a while. It's about a doomed father and his love for his son in a doomed world.
There doesn't seem to be a good way out of this #@%*!! war we're in, and frankly, I think all the Democrats are as lame as the Republicans, just in a different way.
My mother had a close call with cancer last year, my father is creeping up there in years, and I'm already into my 40's when I should be kicking ass, but I feel like I'm still thrashing around most of the time.
Generally, things are actually very good with me, it just seems that theres an underlying sense of gloom and doom in the world around us. Maybe I've just awoken to the human condition. I need a new hobby or something. Maybe I'll try to start believing in God.
Maybe it's just January.
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