Lenten thank, Day 12
Thank God I don’t still live in Saudi Arabia!
My mother, who was a low-key enthusiast of Edgar Cayce and things mystical, used to say the Apocalypse would come from the Middle East. She used to say a lot of things…but why not? It’s gotta come from someplace, after all.
We’re now engaged in another war in another Middle Eastern country, where we’ve been at war longer than we were during World War II. The entire region is erupting, a development which does not bode well.
IMHO, if we don’t free the West from dependence on Arab oil, we will see something very like an apocalypse, because that is what the collapse of a dependable, cheap energy supply will do to our economy. Someone else once said it better: a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
But…maybe it’s just the mean virus speaking. It was a long, dark night.
Now I have to run to teach two classes—mercifully, they’ll be parked in front of computers today. By the end of the day, though, a lovely guest post should be ready to mount. Meanwhile, don’t take any wooden nickels!
Image: ColWilliam. Public Domain.
There’s a great anecdote of some public figure who gets booked for speaking engagements years in advance: if asked the topic of the far-off presentation, he would say it was “the recent trouble in the Middle East,” figuring that there would inevitably be something in the news in the intervening time.
Now if only I could remember who it was or where I read it I could try to track it down.
Something evil this way comes…
Did you see where the Wikileaks cables leak made public that the Saudis don’t have as much in reserves as it’s been claimed? There many allegations of this, but it’s nice to see it finally confirmed.
@ 101 Centavos: Time to buy that Nissan Leaf!