sad and scary days

every once in a while i have to stop and ask myself: "where are we going? and what're we doing in this handbasket???" i have two depressing links for you today, one more dire than the other, but they're both just plain disturbing.

a lot of people have been downplaying Canada's involvement in the american ballistic missle "shield". the argument being that we need to keep close ties to our "we have a war every 4years and have a tendency to elect morons" neighbour at any cost. who cares if we help them build this thing? it's not like it works, right? what harm could it have?

well here you go. russia has started development on a new nuclear missle capable of evading the much-hyped shield. thank you very much america. you're single-handedly spurring another god-damn arms race. here's hoping we're just as lucky this time around and we don't kill every living thing on the planet. "go team". fuck.

pavel gave me the second link, through msn today. apparently, it's caused quite a stir all over the place, even on slashdot. whatever you do, don't work for electronic arts. they'll use you up, spit you out, and replace you without a second thought.