There are countless really horrible things that could happen to me at any time.  Apart from the things that only affect me (rejection by women, spilling coffee on my lap, being killed by a falling piano...), there are things that could affect everyone (identification implants, GWB's economic plans, an atomic bomb dropped by some tiny nation with a vendetta...).

But here's the thing: I'm a musician.  More specifically, a musician without much free time.  Not enough time to really do anything about all this except bitch and moan.  And so I have options as to how I can live my daily life.  I can cower in fear of all the awful fates that could befall me at any moment, or I can just keep them in the far recesses of my mind and make some music, keeping myself (and hopefully my audience) happy.  Needless to say, I choose the latter.  Were I on the Titanic when it sunk, I would be one of the people soothing myself with music, not one of the people running around like a madman worrying about the gory details of my death.

So while I'm sure that some of these things being mentioned around here lately are perhaps possible (though I severely doubt most of it), I'm not going to worry about them until they become more real, because I have no time to worry my head off about distantly possible futures.  Go ahead and say I'm irresponsible, but the fact is I keep myself and (I think) a fair number of those around me content, and I'd much rather be content for 10 years than frantically worried for 12.

I know this rant is uncalled for, but I just wanted to throw it out there in the hopes that there are others like me around here who just skip over all the posted doomsday pamphlets.  I don't want to stop anyone from posting anything, but maybe you could link to some of these things on the political links page...?   Best wishes to everyone,

-Scott