No matter your politics, watch this.

[Boss Radio]

Harlan Ellison once said that he always thought of his body as something solid, like a potato, until his bypass operation, which opened his eyes to the one billion little things that delicately held him together.

In much the same way, I think that as each successive generation learns and more about the shortcomings and sees more of the failures of their elected officials (now unfolding in REAL TIME in the blogosphere) and the uneasy and awkward position that we find ourselves in at the very tippy top of the world food chain, we find it all too tempting to blame the government, and they're an easy target, just because they are sad, stupid, self-absorbed and utterly incompetent. And we put them there...

The mess the world is in right now is bigger than Bush - it existed before he took office, though he and his merry men quickly accelerated it - and it isn't going to magically all get better once there's a new administration. We are on a one way track unless this country finds a new way to hold hands and play nice with the other superpowers and stop bickering over stupid things that really don't matter. There needs to be a real international plan to save the planet and all the nice animals that we're driving to extinction, or we are sadly doomed to extinction, like the giant, talking, highly intelligent but ill-tempered amphibians who invented dentistry, public transportation and moisturizing lotion while they ruled the planet long before we ever got here..

Our only hope may be MAGNIFICATION.