You look at what’s going on in Southern California, and you wonder if this is the beginning of the end of the world. Is this what we have to look forward to now? Huge fires flamed by ever-increasingly hot winds, drought and dust bowls, floods, rising sea levels…. It might just be too late to save the planet now. I reckon things’ll last at least as long as I do (unless Bush blows up the world), but things could get pretty tough before it’s all over. In the meantime, we obsess with keeping shampoo bottles off of airplanes, and whether Britney fucking Spaniel Spears is a good mother. Oh well, maybe there’ll at least be less snow to shovel this winter.

And, who knows? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the times are changing.