Doom and Gloom

[ewt]

Wheat stem rust

Colony Collapse Disorder

Energy shortages

Resistant TB

Bird 'flu

War

Climate change

And people wonder why I get so discouraged. This was going to be a link round-up but it got too depressing.

Comments

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You made it through the 80s while remaining unaware of Billy Joel? Congratulations, or something.

It was a reference to We Didn't Start the Fire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire), which is itself a list of cultural references.