Here's our new predictive Economist cover. This year's graphic definitely has a more harsh and dirty feel to it. Are we going to be nuked soon? Maybe. There is a definite possibility and it would be absolutely horrible. Living after a nuke is not a choose-your-own-adventure path I would want to take. Zombies either. But none of this is in my control, nor does my opinion amount to anything at all, and it doesn't do any good to worry about things you cannot change at all. Last night was Taco Tuesday, like most Tuesday nights around here, and I was grating up some BOGO Cabot Habanero cheese. I think things that are half off taste twice as good. Anyway, Flaming Lips Flight Test has been stuck in my head for days. I'm not even a huge Flaming Lips fan. Most of their stuff sounds remarkably the same to me. Maybe a few different sound effects in the background. I'm sure the use of LSD would make their music pop a little more, but I am clearly moving away from my point.
*When ol' lord Goat Testicle announces the new world order, it must finally be so, but since it's already on the dollar bill I'd assume it's been underway for a long time already. * Ballet star who criticized Putin dies after falling from a building. For the future-I did not push myself off a balcony. *Second rare "doomsday fish" washes ashore in California. *Russia begins mass production of nuclear-resistant mobile bomb shelters . *FDA gives the green light for Gates funded self-amplifying bird flu vaccine . Unless this is going to make me a bird, so I can fly far, far away, I'm not interested in this. And even then, I suppose if God had wanted me to have wings I would have been born with them. *If you're a baby carrot eater, there's a current e. coli outbreak. * KKK papers have been found scattered all over northern Indiana. * Masked group with swastika flags march through the streets of an Ohio neighborhood. * Iraq to lower the age