Crisis du jour
posted by robert - December 8th, 2005 at 10:58 AM…although, in all fairness, it’s one that I take fairly seriously. It’s called Apophis. It’s 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time .
So why “Crisis du jour”? Go get Michael Crichton’s latest book, State of Fear. It’s a pretty good novel from the technothriller king — but it’s also his attack on the crisis culture that consumes Western civilization, and America in particular. Global warming is the favored pinata in State of Fear, but there are tangents on similar topics and their …utility in popular culture. Extremely interesting reading.