My biggest ‘thanks for nothing’ moments
Posted May 5th, 2009Tags: Comet Kahoutek. Sky Lab, SARS, swine flu, WTF?
Well, I knew there would eventually be something I would like about aging . Swine flu is it. The LAST theoretical swine flu epidemic (at the cusp of the eighties) was my first official recorded WTF? moment. It was when I started keeping a list because after the panic over nothing much died down, along with the echoes of my resounding WTF?, I began to wonder,” Does life not provide us with enough really scary stuff on a day to day basis that we need to do this for its entertainment value? Is it because we all watched too many horror movies when we were kids?” I don’t really know. But I am referring now to the way that everyone embraces all these WTF? moments like a hypochondriac reading through the Merck’s Manual, before there is any actual reason to take them on. After having lived through decades of BS at this point, I have come to the conclusion that the safest days of the year are the ones on which Nostradamus bestowed a prediction. Read more