Free Fall

Hey folks, does anyone else feel like it's either going to get a lot worse or it's not, but that there's really very little to be done about it.

1. Global warming is happening. Reversing that is probably going to take some drastic steps -- not just, "everybody recycle" or "everybody buy a hybrid."

2. We're way overstretched in Iraq, which is either an oil-fueled war, a revenge-fueled war, or some combination of the two.

3. Thanks to being overstretched, Israel knows we're not going to take any other kind of military action.

4. Of course we might - go into Iran, I mean. Which I think honestly could be the end of US dominance in the world, economic power notwithstanding.

5. The Bush Administration is impervious to facts that do not align with its previous misconceptions. Democracy - in terms of an ongoing conversation with interested parties - has been thrown to the side. The results of that are what you see now.

So, I hope the mid-term elections bring some relief, in terms of reining in the terrible executive leadership we have. But really it seems like a free fall. Things might stay the same, or get worse. I wasn't expecting Israel to explode, but I'm sure they feel emboldened, considering how overextended we are, militarily. I.e. it's not totally unexpected.

Unfortunately, I don't think things are going to get better for a long, long time.