The US is falling apart
At the temp job I'm at, there is a giant flat screen TV in the lobby right across from my desk. My first job in the morning is to turn it on; my last job at night is to turn it off. In between, it must remained tuned to MSNBC all day. This means that, for the first time in my life, I am COMPLETELY up-to-date on current events.
Besides all the clips of McCain's and Obama's speeches on their economic policies (the "McConomy" and "Obamanomics," oh my god who comes up with these names?!), the big news is the weather.
It's hard to believe that people don't believe in global warming with all the ridiculous shit that has been going down. Just in the past two days, the US has witnessed the following:
1) two feet of snow in Washington state
2) a heat wave on the East coast
2a) reptitive massive thunderstorms (complete with tornado watches)*
3) intense flooding across the midwest, with damns breaking all over the place and, from what I can tell, washing Wisconsin and half of Iowa clear down to Texas
4) yesterday, a waterspout off the coast of Florida
5) California is on fire
Seriously, it makes me want to give the US a day off to just stay home watching reruns of Sex and the City and drink orange juice and tea, because the poor country clearly needs some time to rest and feel better.
*Every single goddamn one of which I swear has happened while I was driving. Yesterday, when my rommate begged me to drive her to CVS to pick up her birth control, lightning hit so close to us that I could feel the electricity in my hair.
Besides all the clips of McCain's and Obama's speeches on their economic policies (the "McConomy" and "Obamanomics," oh my god who comes up with these names?!), the big news is the weather.
It's hard to believe that people don't believe in global warming with all the ridiculous shit that has been going down. Just in the past two days, the US has witnessed the following:
1) two feet of snow in Washington state
2) a heat wave on the East coast
2a) reptitive massive thunderstorms (complete with tornado watches)*
3) intense flooding across the midwest, with damns breaking all over the place and, from what I can tell, washing Wisconsin and half of Iowa clear down to Texas
4) yesterday, a waterspout off the coast of Florida
5) California is on fire
Seriously, it makes me want to give the US a day off to just stay home watching reruns of Sex and the City and drink orange juice and tea, because the poor country clearly needs some time to rest and feel better.
*Every single goddamn one of which I swear has happened while I was driving. Yesterday, when my rommate begged me to drive her to CVS to pick up her birth control, lightning hit so close to us that I could feel the electricity in my hair.