Trouble coming, pretty fast

Eugene Robinson: Climate-change talks need U.S. support

From the look of it, we can’t just blow it off and let the generation after the next deal with global warming, not our problem, thanks all the same.

Looks like it is our problem, and I who say that am a boomer on the edge of a nervous breakdown, what with the plutes who control DC working themselves up to slash my retirement income, my health care, and just about anything that makes the so-called “golden years” even tolerable.

“Old age is a shipwreck,” said Charles de Gaulle, and he couldn’t have said it better.

The last thing I need is for those greedy bastards who run the country – and the whole world, actually, truth to tell – to make it even worse.

If the Republicans ever decide this is a problem we positively have to deal with I guarantee they will turn it into another reason to destroy earned benefits programs, shred the safety-net, and drown the government in Grover Norquist's bathtub.

Maybe the final reason, the last one they need, the straw that breaks the camel’s back, here in America, while France, Germany, and all those evil, un-American euro-socialists manage to find ways to deal with global warming without adopting the American conservatives’ ultimate austerity program, “Let ‘em die!”

Spoken, of course, of everybody who isn’t rich.

And I’m feeling quite enough like I’m going to be living under a bridge because of these vicious assholes, and then dying of pneumonia from my first winter cold, as it is.

Oh, shit.