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POPSfailure becoming an option was inevitable
Some predict that a majority of the U.S. populace will now opt out of its previous obligation to give it 110 percent, and, in the coming weeks and months, give as little as 45 percent. For underachieving Americans, that number is expected to drop to as low as 5 percent by March. A recent Interior Department report found that, although failure was not officially an option until this Tuesday, there have in fact been hundreds of billions of cases of it over the past two centuries, culminating in Fort Collins, CO high school junior Tim Kemp's failing grade on a physics exam last month. Many scholars now believe that such failures have historically been obscured by optimistic slogans and so-called positive thinking, neither of which, according to the report, has had a verifiable effect: Americans' overall failure rate went up nearly 2,350 percent over the past decade, with 1,435,643 instances of failure reported last Sunday alone. "In retrospect, failure becoming an option was ine
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POPSPetraeus Promotion is just more Progress of Disaster The move guarantees endlessly high troop levels in Iraq and gives Petraeus a better shot at inflaming tensions with Iran, a country that Petraeus has recently blamed for all the nasty bits going on in our Baghdad boondoggle. Kewl, huh? Petraeus' predecessor at Centcom, Admiral William Fallon, resigned abruptly last month after 41 years of service. Fallon wasn't keen on Bush's Iraq policy nor was he a big booster of the saber rattling directed in Iran's direction. He and Petraeus didn't exactly see eye to anus. So, Fallon was given the boot. One senior civilian official described the relationship between the two men to "The Washington Post:" "Bad relations? That's the understatement of the century. If you think Armageddon was a riot, that's one way of looking at it." Petraeus' replacement is Lt. General Raymond T. Odierno, a guy who, according to McClatchy Newspapers, "came to the post under a cloud of controversy after some charged that his strong-arm approach to warfare lacke
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POPSHow to Be a Climate Hero Scientists tell us we have ten years, if that, to make significant changes. Every indication, from ice caps to defrosting tundra, seems to show this is the tipping point. This is our moment. Perhaps you never thought you’d get a chance to play hero. Here it is. The kid on the train is screaming out for help. The weather is convulsing. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t sure what to do. Make your best guess. Call 9-1-1. For god’s sake, get the conductor. Whatever the hell that means...but do somethiung --locally, on the intawebs, whatever. Just don't stand there mouth agape going , "we all gonna die!"
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POPSIraq: Poverty Gets the Survivors One might almost expect that Americans themselves might acquire some insight into the real “terrorist” threat they face daily and that they might even be inclined to join their brethren throughout the world in opposing it. But one must not be too unrealistic about the capacity for perceptiveness of the inhabitants of the “greatest democracy on earth”. Blegh!
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