Hey, it can't all be sweetness and light, you know

People have taken Rico to task for his 'downer' attitude in this blog.
What the fuck do they expect from a curmudgeon? Remember, too, I was a curmudgeon before all this...
Besides, there are one or two things out there to be curmudgeonly about: there's a war on (in case you hadn't noticed), there's this little global warming thing (imagine how the polar bears feel about it), there's been a major earthquake in Reno (wonder how the San Andreas Fault is doing), and then there's apparently a little issue with the rice crop (which only feeds about half the world's population)...