Planet getting eaten (Credit: ESA/C Carreau)

I was watching television this morning and CNN was alternating between video of the great Gulf leak and a video from the Hubble telescope of a planet getting eaten by a bigger star.

So, the message is if we don’t all kill ourselves, well, then a big star is going to eat us all any way.

On that cheery note, let me add another.

America is doomed.  At least, that is the message that we get all too often from both the left and the right.

We are going broke.  Our workforce isn’t competitive.  People in the rest of the world hate us.  We can’t plug the damn hole.  We have too many immigrants coming into this country.  Crime is too high.  Our military is stretched too far. We are too fat.  We are too old.  We are too young.

And of course, we better all start speaking Chinese soon, because the Chinese are so rich, they work so hard, they are so smart, and there are so many of them, that we really can’t compete. America is doomed.

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