Define Interesting...

"Define 'Interesting'"

"Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die."

The following things are going on in our world. 

1)North Korea has pulled the UN seals off their nuclear reactors and hit the start button. The same reactor that was making plutonium years ago. 

2) Some of the largest investment banks in the country, as well as many small ones no one hears about, have gone belly up thanks to them trying to take advantage of deregulation and lack of oversight on money lending, which has resulted in leaders wanting to raise the national debt ceiling another $700 billion. This in addition to the $800 billion the ceiling was raised over the summer. For you math geniuses, that's adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt. BTW, the national debt in 1979 was $1.5 trillion. Yeah, we added the same amount to the debt in one year that it took us 200 years to do beforehand.

Real estate markets, Africa, the world's going downhill. I mean, the Yankees didn't make the playoffs and the Devil Rays will probably win the AL East. How's that for bizarro world. If the Cubs win the world series, I might start stocking bottled water. Or embrace my Canadian citizenship. 

I know I've always joked that the world's going to hell and we're going to die by either the Chinese rising up or robots developing sentience and taking over the world, most likely Chinese robots, but the world feels like it's going downhill. Not a lot of light in the world, not a lot of hope. Darkest hour type of stuff, when the world needs a hero. Well, in the midst of yesterday's news on the bailout meetings, companies dropping like flies, the market nose diving, Google made an announcement. Project 10^100 is a Google initiative to give $10 million to the best idea which can "change the world by helping as many people as possible" they cite the Hippo Roller, a container that allows poor people in third world countries to easily transport water by rolling it as opposed to carrying it. These guys play in a bigger league than I do, but I feel like it's a great thing to look for. It's the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket with bigger stakes. It's a successful company stepping up, not only looking to get theirs, but to honestly and earnestly help the global community. 

Not bad for a company whose motto is "Don't be evil."