Happy Doomsday To Us!

By Ed Naha
Created Jan 16 2007 - 9:09am

Does anyone besides me find it telling that the keepers of the "Doomsday
Clock" plan to move its minute hand forward this Wednesday for the second
time during the Bush administration? (Note to Dubya: That would be Mickey's
"big hand.")

For anyone unfamiliar with the clock, scientists who were spooked after
working on The Manhattan Project created it back in 1947. Maintained by the
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the clock is currently set at seven minutes
to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe. The group said it was
making the move based on worsening nuclear and climate threats.

I'm not saying that the Bushistas' worldview is directly responsible for the
move but when you have Veep Cheney declaring on Fox re: Iraq: "This is an
existential conflict," you've got to wonder about how much brain matter is
involved in this government. ("Sergeant Sartre, Corporal Camus, incoming
dangerous philosophies! Get the bunker brain busters!")