(derekbaker)

A Tear in the Space-Time Continuum

Maybe it's the change in the weather, on a bright and breezy Friday in autumn when all my meetings miraculously got canceled. Maybe it's the fact that I have Bruce's new album awaiting its first listen on the hi-fi later today. Or my less-than-successful attempts to cut out the coffee this week.

Whatever the reason, learning on this morning's NPR broadcast (of course) that Al Gore had won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it felt like we'd received a call from our original universe, just checking in.

That would be the universe we lived in up until sometime in 2000, when something affected our Hubble volume, and we entered another plane of the multiverse and life started to seem more like a comic book written by a couple of 13-year-old boys, complete with the Supreme Court appointing the president, a dastardly attack on America's financial and military structure from an evil, international supervillain, which somehow became the pretext for an attack on another, unrelated country and...well, you get the picture.

Apparently, I'm not the only one who had this thought. In checking around, I see that Joan Walsh at Salon had the same sense that, with Gore's Oscar-Emmy-Nobel trifecta, quantum decoherence had come a-knocking.

Labels: environment, politics

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