Large die off.

I'm not sure what to make of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7XH8lfGMc&fmt=18

My only conclusion is that we are long over due for a mass, self induced, extinction.

USA is a comic book

As a kid and an adult I have read classical and science fiction as well as comic books of a most dystopian sort. It all started with Footfall by Niven. Although the instigator there was natural, the result was very human. Or at least very American. Since then I have been drawn to others telling similar stories of the few profiting at the expense of the many. I always saw these stories as mere fiction and not prophetic. Yet, in the back of my mind I have feared I was wrong to think of them in this small way.

Today I no longer fear I was wrong.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/9/25/steve

Now, I know.