Well, it’s hard to feel cheery tonight, I have to say. Muammar Qaddafi, pausing on his way to martyrdom, is strafing his people, and blowing up oil pipelines. It is becoming clearer every day that the wave of “freedom” sweeping the Arab world is a disaster in the making. Europe watches aghast, bracing itself for a tide of human flotsam. Nuclear-armed Pakistan edges closer to ignition. Iran send its navy into the Mediterranean. World fisheries are in freefall. Christchurch, New Zealand, lies in ruins.
Here at home, the nation is cracking apart at the seams. Public-sector labor unions, having managed finally to kill the golden goose, march in open revolt against the taxpayers, while the legislators they own flee their state capitals rather than allow the will of the people to be done. With oil prices racing north as a result of chaos in the East, gasoline prices are rising fast, and economic markets are plummeting. Meteorologists predict record floods throughout the nation’s heartland, and the gigantic magma chamber under Yellowstone is expanding.
And right here in Gotham: smoking banned outdoors, and an epidemic of sidewalk rage.
Well, they say that all a person needs is something to believe in. I believe I’ll fix myself a drink.
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Or several.
Might you make mine a double?
With a side of a tank of gasoline?
I feel your pain, even ‘over here’. Make mine a large, very cold, very dry, Dry Martini. Cheers!
Did I hear “cocktails?” I’ve got a new one I’d like to try out on you. Involving gin. And cucumber. And mint.
Watch Jon Stewart on Governor Walker getting punk’d: that will cheer you up.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-23-2011/crisis-in-dairyland—scott-walker-prank-call
Gwen! Nice to see you here. Make mine a double.
Pete, I don’t think that’ll do it for me.
To quote my third grade teacher: just trying to take that frown and turn it upside down.
I’ll watch some Chris Christie videos.
If watching CC doesn’t cheer you up, try this on for size:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-24/u-s-leads-in-nobels-trails-in-alleyway-sex-commentary-by-caroline-baum.html
Ah yes, glad to know how well we’re doing in the speakers-of-Spanish rankings. We’ve got the bronze, let’s go for the gold!
Pete, stop trying to cheer me up, OK?
No problemo. (Working on my Spanish.)
Union thugs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesennis/5481571309/in/set-72157626154751212/