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It’s actu­ally pretty amaz­ing how crazy TV has got­ten since I stopped watch­ing it. Obviously, I can’t know for cer­tain how crazy it is, since I don’t own one, but I read blog­gers talk about ABC putting on shows about “how soon is the apoc­a­lypse,” and sup­pos­edly some CNN anchor was recy­cling bull­shit from WorldNetDaily (the same folks who brought you the “American Hiroshima” amuse­ment park ride last year) about an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel. And when that didn’t hap­pen there was sup­posed to be a nuclear attack on the U.S. in 2006-09-12, and then again in late September — or, for those read­ing this in the archives, a month and a few weeks before I wrote this, respec­tively. I could knock on wood, but I won’t: Fate can kiss my ass.

Politically, I think the U.S. wants to attack Iran shortly after the mid-term elec­tion, but I have an itch­ing sus­pi­cion the mil­i­tary won’t be ready in time. In which case a Democratic vic­tory may pro­vide some fric­tion — though not enough to stop another war.

And, for the record, America is in such a state cul­tur­ally that Mutual Assured Destruction is presently con­sid­ered the mea­sured response among the polit­i­cal class — thanks for vot­ing with your fetuses, freaks.

Meanwhile, another 10 mil­lion peo­ple slid into poverty this year. Those already in poverty were (unsur­pris­ingly) pushed even lower down. The wealthy are throw­ing the mid­dle class off the lad­der by the hun­dreds of thou­sands, and they knock oth­ers off in a mad scram­ble not to hit bot­tom, who in turn knock those below them off the lad­der, and on down the line until the num­ber of fam­i­lies liv­ing in their car swells some more. A few souls from the mid­dle classes don’t even bother to scram­ble and choose to swan-dive instead — much respect, thump thump.