Let’s review the situation in the world for a moment:

• The economy is in meltdown, and there’s a real possibility that nobody will be able to get a mortgage anymore.
• Despite recent improvements in Iraq, we still have no timetable for withdrawal.
• Things in Afghanistan are getting worse, not better.
• There seems to be no end in sight to increases in the price of oil.
• Iran might be building the bomb, and the United States and Israel are thinking about going to war to stop it.
• America’s infrastructure is collapsing around us.
• We’re still not doing anything about climate change, and the Arctic icecap is melting faster than we thought.
• We’re still torturing people.
• There’s still genocide in Sudan.
• Mugabe is still in power in Zimbabwe, and South Africa’s Mbeki isn’t helping matters.
• The thugs in Burma still haven’t provided anything resembling real cyclone relief
• For that matter, our esteemed leaders in Washington haven’t done much better with New Orleans.
• China is throwing human rights activists in jail as a warm-up for the Olympics.
• America’s reputation internationally stands at an all-time low.

So what’s the top story this morning on the teevee and the intertubes?

This.

That’s right.  Link to it yourself.  I’m not going to show it to you.  I’m not going to analyze it.  I’m not going to waste your time debating whether it’s funny or insulting.  Instead, I’ll show you this:

GET SOME PERSPECTIVE PEOPLE.  And please, fellow bloggers, stop the feeding frenzy and shut up already.

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