“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

Corpse & garbage in the streets of Adhamiya. photo via Iraq Today. Click for LARGE size.

2008: A Year in Limbo

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand...

....And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1921)

Sara Robinson has written a series at Orcinus you should read.

2008: A Year in Limbo

Part I: A Year in Limbo
Part II: Hold on Tight to Your Dream
Part III: Where There Is No Vision, The People Perish
Part IV: On Denial, Collapse, and the Laws of Physics
Part V: Which Rough Beast? -- A Conclusion

Go. Read now.

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Welcome 2008

What's Your New Year Going to Be?

Tell us your plans, dreams, resolutions, hopes.

Bring it on.

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Fred Thompson Announces

Ole turkey neck, the TV guy with the stripper wife announced today. We democrats should be concerned because the GOP is rocking the cashbah here in 2008. Wooooh.

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