Elena Kagen seems to be guaranteed confirmation despite an complete lack of judicial experience. No surprise as the United States no longer tolerates anyone who has a record of ever expressing any kind of opinion.
The Supreme Court gave a typical schizophrenic read on the Second Amendment, on one abolishing Chicago's handgun ban but with its 5-4 ruling leaving the door open to other restrictions on gun ownership.
The BP oil spill continues to flow more or less unabated and with no end in sight.
Dmitry Medvedev has proposed that the world needs a new reserve currency, namely the Russian ruble. At the same time, Vladmir Putin announces that the Russians have built a comparable fighter aircraft to the F-35 only cheaper.
China continues to buy up American debt while billions of dollars go missing in Iraq (and now reappearing, minus a few billion, in Kabul).
The Greek economy has imploded and now Spain, the odds on favorite for the next failure of the European Union, is experiencing a massive labor strike.
There are probably another dozen or so world events that I'm forgetting. We seem to be in the bow wave of major change with the final destination being even more obscure than ever. Any of the events I've listed above, or ones yet to be revealed, are going to significantly change the world. The intolerance of dissenting views is preventing any discussion from these issues occurring.
Three years of teaching at the community college level has alarmed at the lack of inquisitiveness of new students entering school. Students appear to be lacking in the basics of history and logical thinking. These gaps could be overcome except it has been beat into them since childhood to seek consensus. No one ever really loses, therefore there is no interest in who wins. Overly simplistic perhaps but it seems to fit the lack of interest in affairs beyond their hand-held devices.
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