I read a wonderful OpEd in Friday’s IHT that attempts to put to bed the notion that America is destined for collapse. The piece is written by Piers Brendon, a Cambridge professor and expert on the “decline and fall” of the British Empire. He does a convincing – and articulate – job of dismissing the parallels that doomsayers today draw between the great empires of the past and that of America’s today. This isn’t a comprehensive argument to be sure, but it does a good job of providing some perspective to those predicting America’s demise (a group to which I sometimes belong, depending on my mood).
Meanwhile, anyone looking for a good chuckle should check out Slate’s satirical Obama Facebook feed. It’s got quite a few zingers in there and manages to make fun of a lot of people in fairly short order. Among my favorites were Tiger Woods’ posting on America’s Wall, “I will wear you out” and Rahm Emanuel responding to a Curling post by wondering, “What is this, hockey for retards?”.
