Silver Lining

Although Mushroom Clouds (MC) are typically associated with nuclear explosions, they arise from almost any sort of surface detonation- hot ash and vapor rises straight up, then spreads out as it cools - or something more complicated, I dunno- but you do see smaller, non-Apocalyptic MCs when observing typical workaday high-ex usage.
But the MC does serve as a useful and universal symbol for total human annihilation, which is helpful since such a thing seems almost inevitable.
But so what?
Why look on the dark side? If life hands you a MushroomCloud, look for the Silver Lining, at least until your eyes evaporate in their sockets.
Keep your sunny-side up, I always say- unless I'm in New Jersey, where it is illegal to serve eggs "sunny-side up" in a restaraunt. It's also illegal to pump your own gasoline in Jersey. I don't think there's a connection save that we are destined to run out of both chickens (Avian Flu) and gasoline (Exxon/OPEC/SUV/Everything) at some not-too-distant future date. But is that so bad?
Long-time readers of this blog will have already started preparing for the Chicken Extinction and stand to reap enormous profits.

- We are all doomed. If you are religously insane, this is great news, for it means that Hay-Zeus is returning to Earth any day now and he's gonna sort us out real good. Madonna is even buying seats to this event.

- America is involved in fucked-up wars and seems intent on starting more. While it's obvious to most that we (the USA) no longer have a military capable of waging a succesful war against Iran -the Iraq invasion having reduced our once-mighty military to a group of desperately demoralized policemen in the middle of a foriegn Civil War- a position that any military-minded person will recognize as unsustainable, not to mention flat-out stupid- but our President is not like most people.
He is dimmer than a box of solar-powered flashlights stored in a bomb shelter and remains optimistic despite the truncated and unwelcome intrusion of what some might call facts.
He just told our troops "Fuck off- you ain't my problem no more" and remained sanguine while doing so. Where's all the "support our boys" Flag-waving now? The President shrugs, someone'll fix it -or not- just not him.
Hey, a sinking boat rises all waters faster than you can say "melting icecap" and if our President says it's all good, why should we question him? Besides, dissent is so pre-9/11.

-I mean, it's all about spreading democracy and freedom, right? Mission fucking Accomplished, oh yeah! Check Afghanistan - they still have the freedom to execute converts to Christianity , a right that they were in danger of losing after the Taliban were chased into Pakistan, where they continue to flourish.
The Paki government has somehow managed to connect the Taliban, Al-Queda, the Zionists and the (Indian) Hindus in a nefarious plot so patently absurd that it makes Bush's false conflation of Saddam and 9/11 seem positively rational and lucid by comparision. This provides wonderful grist for the conspiracy blogger's mill.

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This also means that our Glorious Leader and his Blood Money Cartel can rake in some big bucks by selling military technology- including nukes- to both India and Pakistan, making that simmering conflict a great boon to shareholders in the Military-Industrial Complex. Another upshot is that our Dept. of Offense can use the profits from this arms-trading to buy newer, spiffier Nukes- bombs and power plants- for a world that just doesn't have enough. Special good news for me- some of these plants will be in my neighborhood . Yay!
Where the bombs will wind up is anyone's guess, but conservative anti-war columnist P.C. Roberts has a pretty scary scenario in mind. If you only click one link in this rant -click that one.

Oh yeah, it's all good- it's all really, really good.