Ten points from Calamity Jane, 21st Century version

Catastrophists of the world, unite, around optimism! That is a headline, you will never read. Instead, you will become one of those people “who doesn’t listen to the news anymore because it is too depressing.” Good luck with that as Nova Scotian smog invades New England’s June, a nuclear plant in the Ukraine is threatened by a lack of cooling water, the debt ceiling drama dissolves into more debt and more drama, and we act as though Covid were over, even though its depression lingers in evidence too large for even Calamity to ignore. That was just the first two weeks…