Everything's going to hell in a handbasket

Berit Anderson

Berit Anderson Jul 7, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Everything's going to hell in a handbasket</h1>
                <h2><p>Is it the power of the honey moon? The gravitational pull of Hillary Clinton's Terry Gross gay marriage rebuke? Whatever the case, shit has gotten real this week. Over at the Pentagon, news popped that the Department of Defense is supporting university research to "model the dynamics,</p></h2>
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            <p>Is it the <a href="http://ktla.com/2014/06/12/a-full-yellow-honey-moon-will-rise-tonight-a-must-see/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">power of the honey moon</a>? The gravitational pull of Hillary Clinton's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/06/12/hillary-clintons-strangely-awkward-terry-gross-interview-on-gay-marriage/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Terry Gross gay marriage rebuke</a>? Whatever the case, shit has gotten real this week. Over at the Pentagon, n<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">ews popped</a> that the Department of Defense is supporting university research to "model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world." That's actually good news since ISIS, a group so extreme even al Qaeda has disowned it, <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/6/13/5803712/11-things-iraq-crisis-isis?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">has taken over a swath of Syria and Iraq</a> about the size of Belgium. And its ambitions don't stop there. The only good news in all this? Scientists at Northwestern University <a href="http://A%20reservoir%20of%20water%20three%20times%20the%20volume%20of%20all%20the%20oceans%20has%20been%20discovered%20deep%20beneath%20the%20Earth%27s%20surface">discovered an ocean deep beneath the Earth's surface</a> that is three times (<em>three times</em>) bigger than all the world's existing oceans together. When the revolution comes, at least we'll be hydrated. — B.A.</p>
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Is it the power of the honey moon? The gravitational pull of Hillary Clinton's Terry Gross gay marriage rebuke? Whatever the case, shit has gotten real this week. Over at the Pentagon, news popped that the Department of Defense is supporting university research to "model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world." That's actually good news since ISIS, a group so extreme even al Qaeda has disowned it, has taken over a swath of Syria and Iraq about the size of Belgium. And its ambitions don't stop there. The only good news in all this? Scientists at Northwestern University discovered an ocean deep beneath the Earth's surface that is three times (three times) bigger than all the world's existing oceans together. When the revolution comes, at least we'll be hydrated. — B.A.

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By Berit Anderson

Berit Anderson was Managing Editor at Crosscut, following tech, culture, media and politics. She founded Crosscut's Community Idea Lab.   Previously community manager of the Tribune Company’