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Used cars and US Presidents seem to run in four year cycles.

When you get a used car, you’re usually stuck in it for about four years. In that time, you become aclimated to what it can and can’t do, what it excells at and what holds it back. There were promises, of course, like the button for the air conditioning worked for a a year or so and the cruise control that didn’t. Then comes that time when you think you can trade it in on a better used car, and you wonder if the new car can live up to its promises. The old one is comfortable and predicatable while the new one looks better but is still a mystery.

So the question is, do you choose to keep what you’re familiar with for another four years, or take a chance on what might be a better or worse prospect?

I know more than a few people who’ve heard conspiracy theorist and UFO expert Art Bell hard at work, and it was a short time ago that he predicted a shift of the magnetic poles that would throw the world’s weather into turmoil (he’s not far off either; check out the website for the television program Nova: Magnetic Storms).

Still, one can only hope that the shooting script for The Core was better than what hit the screen, but it was The Day After Tomorrow that finally made Mother Nature look like the all-powerful badass everyone used to think she was. Is anyone really surprised that hurricanes popping up like daisies and Mt. St. Helens getting all grumbly again has finally got people thinking about the environment again? It doesn’t matter, of course; we’re all just hoping not to get spun off into the big black while we’re clinging to this rock until someone buries us in it.

Aren’t I just happy today?!