Your choice: optimism . . .
17 of the "world's smartest scientists and academics" discuss what they're optimistic about.
Noted historian Paul Johnson argues that there's hope for the Middle East.
. . . or pessimism.
M.D. Jerome Groopman notes that, sadly, doctors still screw up too often in diagnosis.
Caroline Glick argues that Iran will have the Bomb very soon and that, "As a result of the Arab-Islamic-Leftist campaign to demonize Israel that has been going on systematically for more than six years, today throughout the world there is a large and growing sense that wiping Israel off the face of the earth wouldn't be particularly objectionable."
The first "optimistic" link was one of the most depressing things I've ever read. A super nanny state to save us from global warming? That's really supposed to make me feel better about the future?
Posted by: Ted Craig | January 30, 2007 at 08:29 AM
Guess it depends on who is being optimistic. One of my Marxist colleagues (who would probably get a job washing dishes at best, were s/he not in a (Fill-in-Blank) Studies discipline) would find a centralized, collectivist Stalinist bureaucracy running the lives of those stupid sheeple non-Lefties a thought that warmed the cockles of her/his heart.
And if Iran gets nukes and tries to wipe Israel off the map, I'm ducking and then, when the exchange is over, cautiously checking to see how the landscape of the Middle East looks after a thorough re-arranging. (Can you go on Haj to a large, smoking, glowing. radioactive crater?)
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | January 30, 2007 at 11:18 AM