Oh, no! Only 150 seconds to go. The lugubrious blowhards at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists couldn’t let all of the exciting anti-Trump activities of the president’s first week go by without getting in on the act. As they like to do whenever they’ve been out of the news for too long, the Bulletin announced that their doomsday clock is now at two and a half minutes to midnight. Terrifying stuff, we’re sure. Then again, how alarming can it be if we recall that during the last years of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Barack Obama’s tenure, the Bulletin‘s doomsday projection quivered at just three minutes away from Armageddon?
By the time you’ve read The Scrapbook, two and a half minutes are likely to have elapsed. So where’s the end of the world? Are we being too literal-minded when we point out that a clock that’s been stuck at a few minutes to midnight for most of the last 60 years isn’t a particularly useful timepiece?
