Hard to shake that feeling

In reading Mencken one discovers that the world was full of wicked morons riding a handbasket to hell 80 years ago, not at all unlike today. In fact, if one were to post a Mencken essay, many might not realize it is not written specifically for the current situation. This seems to give some comfort. Things may seem ugly, but they turned out at least as good as our own "good old days" of less than 50 years ago.

Then you read another warning about global warming over at BBC News and you start to go over that possibility again, like some poorly planned garden party, just wondering whether you've ordered enough chairs. That's if you're not a paranoid fringe person. That's just a normal responsible, aware response.

Then over at National Geographic they point out yet another medical experimentation twist (mice growing human neurons for brains; Chinese half-human half-rabbit embryos) that needs to be considered, not necessarily by those of us in the peanut gallery, but certainly by someone, and even if we don't bear any responsibility, it seems we'll be faced with some uglier, more challenging social changes than the cell phone pandemic, and sooner rather than later.