It seems every day more and more of the world is falling into chaos, from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to the uprisings in the Middle East and anti-government protests in Europe. And don’t forget there is a terrorist behind every bush wanting to blow us up. But you know what? Being a 99er, I have to say I do not think these catastrophes are hitting my psyche one one-hundredth of what they would have in my prior life before unemployment, though I am genuinely worried about the three nuclear power plants in Japan that may be melting down.
I live in Oregon. During the Second World War a little town about 50 miles to the east of where I live, was the only place in the continental United States to suffer casualties from a Japanese bomb. The bomb was sent via a balloon which drifted with the weather currents and landed in Bly, Oregon where some children from a church group found it. It was a very tragic event.
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