Hell in a handbasket!!!

Cause for Alarm on the Fourth of July

Once again, the eternal pessimist Bob Herbert is having yet another PMS moment.. Things look grim on the landscape and he is in all his glory:

And yet, there was an undercurrent of anxiety in the land. Vacations have been curtailed because of the price of fuel. Since the holiday fell on a Friday, the monthly unemployment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics were released a day early, on Thursday. They weren’t good.

Does Happy Bob have a single solution to any of the grave problems he is so eager to tell us about? Don't be silly.... why spoil a great day of whining?