a token lefty making the blogosphere safe for right-wing domination a weblog by ben glasson atl@benglasson.com

a token lefty HOME Wednesday, 26 November 2003 The future looks bright (and bleak) In the end, does it really matter what direction politics takes? We’re destined to be little more than a footnote on the pages of history anyway. Consider and give thanks for a moment that the only reason you on any given day are able to blog, make whoopee between satin sheets or feed your children Junior Burgers at McDonald’s is because: 1. Around four and a half billion years ago an insignificant lump of rock fell into orbit around a ball of hot yellow stuff in an otherwise unremarkable corner of the universe 2. On said lump of rock a fortuitous combination of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, water and electricity spawned organic life forms that were able to adapt to gradually evolve into all manner of creatures, from protozoa to poodles to giant ocean-cruising whales 3. We have been blessed with the occurrence of very few ELEs (extinction level events). Yet. We’re lucky to be alive, sunshine. And here we are arguing about who should fund Australian film production!