apocalypse now

[stalwartkumquat]

Incredibly, this is a real actual headline (and article) written by a real actual premiere wire news service, not The Onion. It is also a pretty surreal article to stumble across when it's 4:30 in the morning and you're slightly drunk and should be sleeping and just had a lengthy conversation with a friend about the meaning of democracy and whether

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[xequalsfun]

I'm impressed that not one but two people contributed to that...uh..."news piece." I presume their original head, OMFG WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES was rejected by their editor.

Of the many amazing things in this article is the rather twisted logic that presidential campaigns focusing on "hope" are a gauge of how horrible things are. Aren't most campaigns built on the notion of a positive future outcome, which is, at the end of the day, what hope is all about, right?

[stalwartkumquat]

Well, at least we always have sports.

OH WAIT.