Things that should scare you today

The IMF's World Economic Outlook
They may use the phrase "Stabilization is uneven and recovery will likely be sluggish" and use lots of depressing charts, but after you cut through all their scholarly talk you come down to the simple fact that they agree with the TB endorsed policy of hoarding food, stealing hydro and petrol, making weapons, and decorating your house with the bones of the defeated in order to ward off evil spirits and bad omens. It's all there in the footnotes.

That this letter represents the writing and intellectual ability of an elected representative of this country
Granted it's John Ensign and Nevada more or less deserves it for the quality of people they elect, but both the handwriting and prose suggest that of a 12 year old boy, instead of an adult senator. It comes across as a kid who got caught doing something bad in Sunday School and has to write an apology letter to God. All that's really missing is a bad finger-painting of a bearded man frowning at a guy in a suit. With arrows pointing out which one is God and which one is Ensign.

That all the TV news can seem to cover now is Michael Jackson and Sarah Palin.
I mean sure Iran is erupting again, the China situation is apparently so important and serious that it caused Hu Jintao to ditch the G-8 Summit and start threatening the death penalty, and there's a myriad of domestic issues that are being debated seriously, but who needs to cover that shit when you can spend 12 hours each on "Is Palin really a super-secret genius who has already won the 2012 Presidency?" and "Was it exploitative to have Michael Jackson' daughter speak at his memorial?" Let me handle those two for you: No, Palin is a crooked idiot and no, but you're trying to exploit Jackson's daughter now for ratings. We shouldn't have to tell them that other news is going on, they're the news, they should already know that.