The PBS news’ commentator

speaking about an immediately

unfolding international power

play summarized the interview

by saying, in relation to the same

old “mine is bigger than yours”

gambit, “Nobody is taking their

eyes off the ball,” or perhaps she

meant balls, and on the same day

earlier on the same broadcast, it

was reported that a UN scientific

study concluded that just about

everybody’s eyes have been off

the ball – in fact – way, way off

the ball called THE EARTH,

and that’s the hell of it, speaking

of thermal heat. We’re apparently

mesmerized, as always, by the

bravado of male member size

and not much concerned with

Katrina, Sandy and the real

wrath of females to come. It’s

not nice to fool Mother Nature.

Hurray for rights for LGBT’s

and justice for all other minor-

ities including the 99.99% econ-

omically, but, the stone cold

reality is, none of these worthy

causes is worth much if the

LGBT folks and all other minor-

ities and the 99.99% economically

drown in floods, die in droughts,

burn in wildfires, or get swept out

to sea. All, of which, beg the quest-

ion, “Are we majoring in minors

and minoring in majors as we all

shrivel on the vine

or drown in brackish brine?”