Tomorrow starts the beginning of the (official) 2008 Christmas holiday season, and seems to be setting in quickly for a long slow march towards the new year as weary consumers search for the beginning of something to look forward to.
Personally relieved at the prospect of fewer people on the roads and in the air this week as I head to Las Vegas for business (no rest for the wicked), the rat race is planning on spending it's hard earned money in a more frugal manner.
No doubt, the view from the passenger window as I look down over Chicago on my way west won't look much different than it always has - a mass of development and urban sprawl we call progress will still be immersed in it's daily activities unabated. The queues may be smaller up close, but from a comfortable distance there is still the marvel of the human condition ever moving forward towards it's individual and collective goals humming along underneath the setting sun.
After all there is always tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Someday, whether it's January 21st, or July 4th or some other day in our future, things will be better for me and you.
However next year may be full of more of the same as far as the economy goes, and in other news ...
Environmental scientists warn that the dangerous levels of CO2 (at 350 PPM) which sparked the last period of global warming has already arrived and are now pleading governments and anyone listening to try and reduce levels immediately. Certainly drastic steps are needed despite the fact that in creating a new environmentally friendly economy will need to utilize traditional means of production just to get there.
While world oil resources are most likely past peak supply levels, it's certainly reassuring at least for now that prices in the past month and the foreseeable future will remain low.
Now it seems there is already another highly destructive strain of bacterial infection is spreading through the world and has begun to take hold in the US and around the world via infected rats.
Unfortunately, this article (linked above) does not provide us with information about the likelihood of death and it's method of dispersal. So we can only hope that scientists will share more information with us as soon as it becomes known.
Still it seems our race is still strangely connected to the condition of the common rat no matter how far away you try to look at it.
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