Who's Up For Month Two?

As we start the second month of twenty-eleven, I'm fascinated by a review of what happened during the first. We had almost heard enough about the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the Tucson murders when the news cycle was saved by revolution in the Middle East. The kind of weather associated with climate change that has been predicted for at least a couple of decades now gets sensational media attention which is punctuated by an unabated thirty-four U.S. murders each day. We may be approaching the day (faster than we think) when it will take something on the order of a nuclear attack to qualify as breaking news. In the meantime, it's hard to think of any more pressing global issue than Super Bowl XLV. Pity the idiot who would attempt to interfere with this High Mass of the American people. Perhaps this shortest month of February (has our calendar, along with the Zodiac, lost its synchronicity with the Cosmos?) will accelerate our mad rush toward the extreme and bizarre future that awaits the unfaithfully immoral.