A key phrase triggered while reading this article, and I merely sighed and nodded in my awesomely sage-like fashion (I *do* know everything afterall). I’ll highlight that bitch:

“Though the Yellowstone system… is active and expected to eventually blow its top, scientists don’t think it will erupt any time soon. Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent…”

Scientists don’t *think* it will erupt anytime soon, yet reading the rest of the article does imply that something is going on down there. Scientists have been caught off guard before and have been wrong before. Actually nix that, science usually *is* being caught off guard and being proven wrong, thus the concept of the hypothesis and the emperiment. Scientific publications are also notorious for being influenced by public opinion, special interest groups and politicians, and it really wouldn’t do to have them telling MSNBC that we’re all going to suffer the effects of a thermonuclear winter or something approaching that in the region. Hell, these are the motherfuckers that bullshit the public on Global Motherfucking Warming.

Threats of nuclear war. The oceanic populations dead by 2025. The catastrophic effects of moving out of our little Ice Age. New diseases and infections modern medicine can’t defeat. American Idol. Contaminated food and water…

…shit sometimes I wonder if The Book of Revelations was on to something. Or maybe H.P. Lovecraft was right. I for one welcome my new Shoggoth overlords.

-=Grim=-