By now I've stopped dating my checks '2014' by mistake, so its about time to take a look at this year 2015 we find ourselves in...
... cue swirling intercut images of burning Jordanian pilots, terrorist attacks in France, Netanyahu 'addressing' Congress, and Jon Stewart breaking up with the Daily Show
Enough! Can't we go back and stay a while in 2014?
What? Not possible? Okay then, can we fast forward to 2016? Wait ... that's an election year and I'm not ready to go through THAT again, not yet.
Oh well, a slow hopeful plod through the remaining three quarters of 2015 then. A year in which we must hope nothing worse (and maybe better) than what we've already seen comes our way:
No greater escalation of the Ukrainian War ...
Fewer and less lethal Terrorist Attacks ...
Calmer heads in Congress willing to compromise for the good of the populace ...
An Iran nuclear agreement that will prevent the 'Islamic Bomb' but gets Iran the e-power it needs...
Increasing mutual understanding and sympathy between Hamas and Israel (we can dream) ...
Respect for women in India, Pakistan, and other medieval places (its 2015, damn it) ...
A North Korea that can laugh at itself ...
- and - John Oliver seeing the light and ditching his great HBO show for an even greater gig as the new Daily Show host ...
If even one of those things could be said to be true of 2015 when we are sitting around in March 2016 and looking back, then maybe this year won't be such a disaster.
Unless that Big Space Rock finally hits ...
Or the Large Hadron Collider turns Earth into a New Big Bang...
... cue swirling intercut images of burning Jordanian pilots, terrorist attacks in France, Netanyahu 'addressing' Congress, and Jon Stewart breaking up with the Daily Show
Enough! Can't we go back and stay a while in 2014?
What? Not possible? Okay then, can we fast forward to 2016? Wait ... that's an election year and I'm not ready to go through THAT again, not yet.
Oh well, a slow hopeful plod through the remaining three quarters of 2015 then. A year in which we must hope nothing worse (and maybe better) than what we've already seen comes our way:
No greater escalation of the Ukrainian War ...
Fewer and less lethal Terrorist Attacks ...
Calmer heads in Congress willing to compromise for the good of the populace ...
An Iran nuclear agreement that will prevent the 'Islamic Bomb' but gets Iran the e-power it needs...
Increasing mutual understanding and sympathy between Hamas and Israel (we can dream) ...
Respect for women in India, Pakistan, and other medieval places (its 2015, damn it) ...
A North Korea that can laugh at itself ...
- and - John Oliver seeing the light and ditching his great HBO show for an even greater gig as the new Daily Show host ...
If even one of those things could be said to be true of 2015 when we are sitting around in March 2016 and looking back, then maybe this year won't be such a disaster.
Unless that Big Space Rock finally hits ...
Or the Large Hadron Collider turns Earth into a New Big Bang...
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