The Sky is Falling

What do you do when you see the world end? Who knows what really is going to happen, but the biped is in absolute hysterics. All I want is another Greenie. It has occurred to me, though, when he's in the alms house, who's going to buy me that expensive dogfood I'm used to.

My favorite commentator on this is, as always, the inimitable Paul Krugman. A stunner:

So what we now have is non-functional government in the face of a major crisis, because Congress includes a quorum of crazies and nobody trusts the White House an inch. As a friend said last night, we’ve become a banana republic with nukes.

Crazies and nukes? Isn't that what Americans used to say about the USSR?

To celebrate the fall of the Ancien Regime, in good French aristocrat style, the biped took me shopping. More on that later.