Embracing change
We have oil riding the waves onto some of the prettiest beaches in the country and no idea of when it might stop. We've insulted Great Britain and Israel, two of our most loyal allies, multiple times. Unemployment continues to worsen, while the media, and the administration, say things are getting better. In one state, certain voters now are told by the court that they can vote six times, but only if their skin is the right color. And now both the country of Mexico and the US Department of Labor are taking the state of Arizona to court.
According to one senator, the president told him he could not enforce the border laws because if he did, he would lose the leverage to push the opposite party into comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. Now we hear rumors of possible amnesty by executive order. Police in a number of jurisdictions now arrest people for taking pictures or videos on public streets.
And while I have no idea if this is true or not, on the other side of the world a court supposedly forced a young man to marry a cow. (Pauline, do not follow this link!)
It's enough to make even empty heads like mine swim. Therefore I felt it vital to find someway to embrace all the changes, a task said difficult for older folks. But then I found In 20 Years. If you upload a picture there, morphing software uses facial recognition and aging concepts to show what the person in the picture might look like in twenty or thirty years. It's not perfect of course, so click the thumbnail and see how well you think it worked on Shane.
In fairness though, I ran a picture of me through the morphing machine too, so you can laugh at both of us. Unlike the changes above, laughter should be a welcome one nowadays, at least for those who remember how.
