Topics I want to write about soon include, but are not limited to:

Famine
...as in, New York Times and pretty much everyone else who is writing about Somalia, famine does not "sweep across" any country. It's not like five minutes ago I was fine and now I'm starving to death. Famine creeps. It is slow. If we are surprised, it's because we chose not to pay attention.

The Stock Market
...as in, The is up hundreds of points today! We'll be fine! Oh! That was yesterday; today the market is down a few hundred points! We're screwed! Wait! Woohoo! The market is back up a few hundred points! We're fine! aka WHY THE HELL DO WE BASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR ECONOMIC HEALTH ON THE STOCK MARKET?!? If I said I was putting all my money and staking my economic future on horse races, you'd say I was crazy. I can't see how staking our economic future on another kind of betting is a better idea. In fact, it's probably a worse idea, because compared to humans, horses are both more consistent and probably smarter

Larry Summers
...former President of Harvard, big economic adviser to Obama as well as President Clinton, gigantic jackass.

Consumerism
...as in, our thirst for stuff is killing people and the planet. This should bother us more.

Football
...as in, football preseason starts this week??? It CANNOT be time for that yet.

Actually, that's all I have to say about football.