is it 2012 yet?

The Mayan calendar has long predicted the end of the world in 2012 which a few years ago (Y2K not withstanding) seemed ludicrous but with what we have seen in the last years maybe it's time to pack up and get ready.

We know our infrastructure is crumbling, our government is spying on us, we are in debt to the Chinese, our bodies are getting bloated by sugars, our banks are getting bailed out, the insurance companies are ensured profits from the crooked health-care bill, more people read US Weekly than do the NY Times and the only thing still 'green' is the color of money.  Our air is thick in smog, our rivers are infested with chemicals, Katrina from a few years ago, the Great Recession, Katrina, Britney Spears being photographed in a bikini again and the fact that the Knicks haven't had a significant run in a decade, something major is about to happened you can just feel it.

The Icelandic Volcano eruption which by all accounts wasn't even a very large one just took down all air-travel in and around Europe for three straight days and virtually brought all commerce to a screeching halt.     The last time that Iceland was responsible for this kind of havoc was when that Icelandic banks collapsed which crumbled the Icelandic economy and then threatened to bankrupted the rest of Europe and forced  the Dutch and British governments to try to recover it from the tax-payers of Iceland which will only force them into more isolationism.

See it's crazy how intertwined we all are when you see the havoc that a small volcano can do, Al Qaeda could only hope to do this.  What the hell would have happened if it was a bigger volcano, I mean that Tsunami took out the entire southern hemisphere. Maybe out battle isn't with extremists as much as it is with the extremes of our own planet.