I find it easier to title a post when there’s a single topic. It’s sometimes more difficult when there’s several unrelated items in a post. So, I’m not even going to try.

It appears that we’re a little closer to the end of the world. The Doomsday Clock has been moved from 7 minutes to midnight to 5 minutes to midnight. Of course, I first learned about the Doomsday Clock via one of my favorite sources of historical information - our good friends in Iron Maiden and their 1984 song “2 Minutes To Midnight“, in reference to the U.S. and Soviet tests in the 50’s that moved the clock to it’s closest to midnight to date. We’re only at five minutes to midnight now, but I’m with the help of Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, perhaps it won’t be long until it moves again.

Speaking of doomsday, some are predicting just such a day if Barack Obama is elected president. Obama announced yesterday that he’s creating a presidential exploratory committee. I saw this nonsense from Debbie Schlussel a few weeks ago, and according to snopes.com, this email is being circulated. Despite the fact that Obama is a Christian and attends a church in Chicago, the email claims it’s just a front to get elected and that he’s really a Muslim, and a radical one at that. (I can only assume he is just waiting until he gets elected so that he can unleash all sorts of evil on our country.) I guess that’s what politics is all about now - try to demonize the other guy as much as possible, regardless of facts. You’d think we could move beyond that. Is it any wonder people have such a lack of respect for politics in this country?

The first candidate for the 2007 year in morons list. A Virginia lawmaker says blacks “should get over slavery.” I’m not even sure how to respond to this guy. He’s 79 and in the South, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but you’d think that even if he felt this way (which he obviously does), he’d not be stupid enough to voice it publicly. I’m guessing he wasn’t doing a lot of celebrating on Monday.

A chimpanzee at the Little Rock zoo escaped this week and, among other things, raided a fridge and cleaned a toilet. I just thought that was funny. Cleaning the toilet? Apparently it used to be a house pet, so I can only assume that it was required to do chores at home before arriving at the zoo.