You may have heard that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight — from 11:53 pm to 11:55 pm. Sweet Jesus, what do they think they are doing? Are they trying to extract some kind of policy change? Do the Atomic Scientists think they can extort some kind of money from governments and industrial leaders? Or are they just mad?
“There’s a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse,†said Bulletin editor Mark Strauss. No shit, Sherlock: when you move the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, you’re playing with fire! Don’t they teach scientists to be careful or something? Why is anyone even touching that thing?
And will you just look at where they’ve put that thing? Right in the middle of Chicago, accessible by millions of people, near trains, plains, and a public park with lots of trees to hide behind! It’s right across the Great Lakes from a bunch of foreigners to boot! Who has the keys to this place? Is it under guard? Do we know?
Write the President! Oh, no, wait, he won’t take your mail any more. OK, then, write your Senators! Write your Representative! Someone has got to get these rogue scientists and their Doomsday Clock under control — before it is too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you sure that’s where the thing is at? That’s the sort of neighborhood where you see used syringes discarded in the gutter. North of 58th street is the U of C campus and the upscale Hyde Park. But U of C is in the middle of a very nasty economically depressed area. I once ventured south of 60th street by mistake and was inside a dorm–the university does have a few buildings on that side of the midway bullevard–and I have never seen such lockdown security even in a mental health unit. Fortunatley the address I was looking for was across the street. The junkies are gonna find that clock. Hey Disaster Dan, don’t move to Chicago! But of course the right-wing fruitcakes have moved their clock back.