If we are lucky, we may cross paths with something that makes us grin for a day or two.
And soon, we may cross an important symbolic threshold: when the overall majority of government expenditures are spent on, essentially, insurance programs.
"We may cross that in the next 10 years".
Based on current trends, we are likely to move toward a world warmer by 3 degrees, and we may well cross tipping points with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Still, there are lines in polite society which we may not cross, and icing out in-laws who have done us no harm (in their own homes, no less) is one of them.
On Friday, December 9, White House aide Lisa Monaco said, "we may have crossed into a new threshold here".
"We may be crossing a new threshold, and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened and to impart those lessons learned". .
America could make the case: "OK, look, we may have crossed a few lines in our war on terror, but a lot of this stuff is brand-new, so we just had the opportunity before other countries were faced with similar choices -- and now that we've had time to consider, we think there ought to be some rules to cover futuristic battlefields, both real and virtual".
With some, acceptance may come first, then denial; others may cross over constantly from acceptance to denial.
