Oh, what a wicked world! Unranked TCU, a Texas team - it's right there in their name, Texas Christian University, they don't even try to hide it - won the Alamo Bowl in overtime over No. 16 USC (9-3). An unranked, 8-4 team from the Big12 - and from Texas, I'll remind you again - gave the Big10 their first loss in this year's bowls.
I don't have the stomach to go through a play-by-play description of what happened, how the game went into OT, or how TCU came out on top. Google it if you're curious. I just know that with two losses and one win today, I fall to a frankly embarrassing 11-and-18 in my bowl picks this season. I suck at this.
The world is changing and I wasn't made for these times. The effects of climate change are ravaging the globe even as levels of greenhouse gases continue to rise. The oceans, choked with plastic, are dying and we're well into the 6th Extinction. Authoritarianism and outright fascism are on the rise all over the world, and we’re closer to nuclear war than we’ve been at any time since the Cold War years of the 60s and 70s.
Domestically, half my fellow citizens, preoccupied by ludicrous claims and fictional scenarios, are accepting of the most outlandish conspiracy theories imaginable and rejecting the very principles of democracy on which this country was founded. Stupidity and ignorance are no longer barriers to holding political office, and some politicians even seem to treat them as assets to be proudly displayed. Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, islamophobia, sexism, and any other form of hatred or intolerance you can imagine are present in virtually all aspects of our lives. White Christian Nationalism seems to be the platform of at least one major political party, and cruelty their default position. And economic inequality is at an all-time high, with a small sub-percentage of the people controlling the vast majority of the wealth. It’s as if we’re teetering between “Brave New World” and “Idiocracy.”
And meanwhile, Texas teams, Texas, are winning bowl games and my picks are a paltry 11-8. What a wicked world!
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