Blowing & Drifting

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.

Optimopessimism

In a brief piece in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, science writer Jim Holt discusses prevailing opinions of optimism and pessimism. The article is worth reading just to see how scientists are wrangling over (and exhibiting the signs of) those two perspectives on the future, but Holt drops in two wonderful quotes:
  Ogden Nash: "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."
  Karl Kraus: "Things are hopeless but not serious"
That last one is my new motto.