Soak it up folks. For better or worse (likely for better) these are amazing times

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. Yep, amazing times.

Climate change, increasing, Arctic sea ice predicted to be gone in summer within a few years; US government, still without the political will to actually formulate an effective policy for dealing with it or mitigating it, instead it's all "North American energy independence!" and fracking and tar sands and "clean coal". The biggest single crisis facing the planet in memory, with consequences that will affect not only Americans but all of the seven billion humans on earth and every other species, and the USA has consistently and continually dropped the ball because it's not politically convenient. But hey, we have time to argue about relatively meaningless things as though they actually matter. I don't really have a lot of hope for the future, personally. Slightly more with Obama than with Romney. But realistically? We're pretty fucked no matter what; at this point it's all rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.