iowahawk: Default, Dear Brutus, Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves

iowahawk: Default, Dear Brutus, Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves

"If my inner Nostradamus is any guide, the post-apocalyptic future of August 3, 2011 looks grim indeed:

NPR news segments no longer buffered by soothing zither interludes.

Breadlines teeming with jobless Outreach Coordinators, Diversity Liaisons, and Sustainability Facilitators.

Cowboy poetry utterly lacking in metre.

General Motors unfairly forced to build cars that people want, for a profit.

Chaos reigns at Goldman Sachs, who no longer knows who to bribe with political donations.

Mankind's dream of high speed government rail service between Chicago and Iowa City tragically dies.

No longer protected by government warning labels, massive wave of amputations from people sticking limbs into lawn mowers

New York devolves into a dystopian hellscape of sugared cola moonshiners, salty snackhouses and tobacco dens.

At-risk Mexican drug lords forced to buy own machine guns.

Defenseless mortgage holders forced to live in houses they can actually afford.

Without college loan program, America loses an entire generation of Marxist Dance Theorists.

Anthony Weiner is forced to pay for own sex addiction therapy.

Nation's freeway exits croweded with desperate bureaucrats waving 'will regulate for food' signs."