Ground Control to Major Tom

I’m likin’ whats goin’ on Stateside… The pictures in the papers, and the snippets (heh, snippits!)on television, appear to portray a nation attempting to redefine itself… and lets face it… The Yanks ain’t exactly flavour of the month flavour in most of the rest of the world. Although having said that, the rest of the world isn’t so perfect itself.

The problems we face today; Fundamentalism, Sustainability, Technology Control, do not fall at the feet of the United States, they’re shared problems that implicate humanity. Finding solutions to these problems is what will make the difference between us being a continuing feature in the spectacle of nature, or merely a failed experiment scratching its surface*.

The US has been playing the protagonist in this story for a while, but I think the recent events, the inauguration of Hilary Clinton as the first female President ever to take office in the United States White House… wait a sec… sorry, that was the wrong version of reality!

So Obama… wazzegonnado?

I bet if you met Obama, he’d give you a lollipop!

Question is: What’s he gonna do next… I mean, he only has the hopes of the entire Planet Earth resting on his shoulders. Fuuuuckckk, I would definitely not want to be him! I wouldn’t be surprised if his first act of office was a lollipop for every human being on the Planet. He’d probably actually go quite a way to cooling things down.

I can just imagine Ahmadinejad, getting his lollipop, in his office in Tehran. He’d probably have a great laugh. Ahmadinejad would probably ask one of the mullahs to pass him the phone and he’d give Obama a call on the telephone and say: “Hey dude, thanks for the lolly… the mullahs love theirs too… Yeah… No… Khamenei mouth’s gone all red and he loves the flavour… here listen, don’t worry about the nuclear stuff, we’ll just stop it… that cool…? cool…! we cool…? Cool!”.

Well lets hope that he manages to pull some kind of rabbit out of the hat… cos if he doesn’t… well… then… I guess we’ll see what then, won’t we…. Until then, I've lashed up some pics from Mumbai below ;-)

Ur man in Hindustan!