The economy's in the toilet, I'm peeing more and enjoying it less, the polar ice caps are melting, I can't remember who's on first for the Mets, and I just ate a 5-day-old calzone I found in the back of the fridge.
All small potatoes! Here are three HUGE worries:. * Magnetic pole reversal This has happened about every 250,000 years. It's a biggie, too -- wild storms, earhquakes,tsunamis the size of skyscrapers. Guess what? We haven't had one of these puppies for 700,000 years. Either Mother Nature is calming down, or we're WAY overdue!
Genetically Modified Organisms Science and Agriculture congomerates are into this big time, trying to make fruits with no seeds, bananas with the shelf life of a pair of blue jeans, grass that doesn't need to be mowed. In one test in South America they (by mistake) concocted a grass seed that, if planted, would grow and KILL all vegetation it came in contact with. They caught that one in time, but what's next?
The end of the world! The Mayan calendar calls it: December 2012. There's a movie coming out about this and a website that looks real enough to fool Orson Wells.(Click on the title to go there)
The bright side: Take out a six-year lease on a Ferrari!
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