The Onion As Seer For The Future

Thanks to Neil Gaiman's blog, I got pointed to this Onion article from Jan, 2001 in which Bush's ascendancy is 'hailed' as the end to an era of peace and prosperity. Boy, did those comedy writers nail it or what!? At the time that it first appeared, in fact, even the biggest Bush-haters probably would've laughed off some of the predictions in it... but if anything, the article understated just how incredibly bad things were going to be under this particular Commander-in-Thief! The past few months have, at times, felt like the end of the world, economically-speaking. While I don't necessarily lay all of what's happened recently at George W's feet, he certainly put his country into the precarious situation where they became so incredibly overextended in every way that counted. Hey, his reaction to a terrorist attack on his nation was to tell the people to "go shopping," so is it any wonder that they're in a credit crunch of historic proportions now, and are dragging the rest of the world down with them? I think not.

P.S. This mixture of humour and gloom-and-doom? Post # 1800! Yay, me!