There is a frightening new global trend of denial...

Europeans think that they don't need to limit fishing...

Car companies don't think they need to improve fuel economy standards...

Bush thinks he can increase spending and cut taxes at the same time...

Jingoists think we are winning the war in Iraq...

Democrats think Hillary Clinton has enough experience to win an election...

Polluters think that Global Warming won't really happen...

Evangelicals think Jesus is coming back soon...

Fundamentalists think they can win the war against modernity...

The truth is: we're stuck with this world. The rules DO apply. No free passes. You have to face the music sometime.

We must choose realism over comfortable delusion. Unfortunately, for now, wistful thinking will rule the day until we let it all collapse around us.

Then we'll stand there scratching our heads saying: How could this happen?

That's reality for you.

As Stephen Colbert already explained:

But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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[Critics of the administration say] "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring! If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!

Reality has more Authority than fiction. Deny it and it will strike when least expected-and it doesn't take prisoners.
It is not subjective.
Historians create an expurgated view of reality.
The aspects of reality we can't escape, are the inherited consequences.

Are we doomed or not?...That is the question. I'm not givin' up.....but there are bad days when.....

It seems to me that politicians and pundits waste far too much valuable time attempting to figure out how & why something has gone wrong and who they can blame for it rather than just saying "It is what it is & let's try plan A to fix it. Then Plan B." There's never been one solution for fixing anything, so why can't they try different stuff in different places?

The point remains that we are killing the biosphere along with ourselves and it is nearly too late to check our fate.

Excellent clips ouyangwulong...

That's reality for you.

I'll say.