Over 200 earthquakes in Yellowstone in the last few days, centered on the lake. It seems Wyoming could blow up again. And it hasn’t done this for 650,000 years. And of course it blew 650,000 years before that one. And 650,000 years before that one. Anyone sensing a pattern here?
As it erupts with the force of 10,000 Mount St. Helenses, another big one would render the Western U.S. uninhabitable.
So pathetic, yet so evil. But at least Darth Vader had a backstory. Cheney’s origins entail dropping out of Yale and a couple of drunk driving arrests in Wyoming, followed by a four-decade rise to Cobra Commander.
Paul Krugman is really smart.
“In recent years the finance sector accounted for 8 percent of America’s G.D.P., up from less than 5 percent a generation earlier. If that extra 3 percent was money for nothing — and it probably was — we’re talking about $400 billion a year in waste, fraud and abuse.”
That’s right, it’s over when the clock chimes midnight on December 25.
This is what I hope the big-box malls look like in 50 years:
Carrie Fisher must have been hopped up on goofballs.
