I mentioned a while back how I was gonna start keeping an eye on the price of gas at my corner BP station, just for shits and giggles. And it just took a jump, after a dip so brief that I didn’t even get a chance to take a picture of the price board. (The cheap gas was at $3.13 for about 12 hours before it popped back up to these prices here.)
Anyway, none of it matters because a giant asteroid is gonna kill us all tonight. Or maybe not. But you can already hear the refrain from Our Glorious Leaders echoing back through time from 2026 or whenever, who will say things like, “No one could have predicted that a big rock would strike the Earth.” And then they’ll declare a Global War on Asteroids, and some people will begin to declare that “rock” music is unpatriotic, and they’ll change the name to “freedom to breath air that isn’t choked with a hundred trillion tons of pulverized cities and mountain ranges” music, and politicians will start declaring that they were for hunting down asteroids before they were against it, and...
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