The Occasional Observer

Anyone just feel like we're living in bizarro land? The last few weeks have been even weirder than the exceptionally weird last couple of months, with an emphasis on the dangerous.

-Global killing asteroid just misses Earth
-70 degree days in mid-November
-All-time weird storm hits Alaska
-Earthquake in Oklahoma
-Radioactivity of unknown origin in the air over Europe
-JoePa (JoePa!) turns a blind eye to sexual abuse of children, in a scandal that seems to grow bigger by the day
-#OWS protestors occupying cities across the fruited plain; in Atlanta they have a TB epidemic; in Denver they've elected a dog their leader; in Seattle they've incorporated; in New York they're pissed that the homeless are taking their food
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-Europe collapsing in on itself
-IAEA announces Iran near getting nukes
-Islamists taking control across MENA region ("Arab Spring")
-Gold surges, fiat currencies everywhere turn volatile
-China and Russia in bilateral talks, China military spending balloons, veiled threats against devaluing our currency with further QE
-Rick Perry can't count to three