more fun for the teeming masses 



certainly for the masses that can barely squeeze out of what appears to be the camel's eye of houston's freeway system . . .

chris riebschlager kindly passes on this wonderfully alarmist analysis of the as-yet-unseen impact of rita's smacking dead athwart the other third of america's gas refining capacity.
 
While I had serious doubts about America’s ability to recover from Katrina, I am certain that – barring divine intervention – the United States is finished; not only as a superpower, but possibly even as a single, unified nation with the arrival of Hurricane Rita,
says michael c. ruppert at this grim and joyless blog.

now, as i keep telling bonnie, i don't think of the apocalypse (or the apookalypse, as we refer to it round here,) in the usual terms, but as a shuddering paradigm shift and the psychic end, if not physical one, of the civilization. our birthright is free energy, free mobility, and independence from nature. these twin kicks to the nuts just might begin to transmit to our dim and lazy minds the possibility that we might be actually part of the fabric of the universe.

of course, i may be wrong: our fatuous worship of celebrity, our quest for the perfect grand jeep cherokee, our quest for ultimate skinniness and the fattest burger in the land just might live through this crisis.

i'd be disappointed, in a way, if it did not, even though i hate them so. 

Posted: Thu - September 22, 2005 at 08:19 PM             |

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