My “Wicked Witch of the West” award goes to… New York City.
New York and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States melt-down in a rain storm that is merely a punctuation point on one of the hottest years on record worldwide. Are the rain storms getting worse? Well let me just tell you sunny, “When I was your age, I had to walk barefoot across the living room to switch the channel.” For shame! Life’s a (Sandy) Beach when Global Warmnings shift from apocalypse to baseball rain delays.
My “Get Reddy for This” award goes to… the Communist-Industrial Complex
Shortly after their Yangtze river turns an unprecedented shade of red, Canadian authorities endorse a $15.1 billion take-over in the Canadian oil sands by a state owned Chinese drilling company. I guess they never red the flood of articles polluting China’s environmental record because they were too busy rationalizing the bad ink surrounding China’s human rights policy (or lack thereof). Move over Manitoba, there’s a new Red River on the Canadian horizon.
My “Home Body of the Year” award goes to… Charles Zigler
Michigan Police found the dead man’s mummified remains sitting upright in the living room. His roommate said she kept his remains clean and dressed and talked to the body often, especially when “they” watched auto racing. She admits cashing his benefit checks since his death in 2010 (or six months ago by her estimate).
My “Apocalypse Now” (or “You’re not Smarter than an American 5th Grader”) award goes to… Canadians
With the American sub-prime mortgage melt-down fresh (and Eurogeddon foremost) in everyone’s mind, Canadians manage to roll their household debt up to an average of $1.53 for every dollar they brought in – just below where the U.S. was before its housing crash.
My “What`s so Great about the Outdoors” award goes to… The BioLite CampStove
This wood burning(?) energy generation device is voted recreational innovation of the year by Popular Science. Now everyone can go out and play even if they don’t want to get away from IT all.