Given President Donald Trump's reckless statements about nuclear proliferation and the Republican's rampant climate denialism, it should not come as a surprise that "doom-soon" is now more probable than it was a year ago.
He thinks a Tory/Lib Dem deal is now looking more probable.
If it sticks, as now seems more probable than not, the fraught period leading up to the agreement will go down as his finest hour.
The more probable culprits of racial violence now are sole actors like Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people in a historically black church in Charleston, and who is believed to have been radicalized, at least partly, by hate propaganda.
The other is that he and Labour are doomed: their defeat on polling day is still near-certain, even if a narrow one now seems more probable than a rout.
But the Internet which guarantees the free flow of information, speech, money, talent and ideas, and speeds up the distribution of these good things … and therefore makes markets more perfect … and therefore wrings out inflation and waste offers the possibility, once slim but now becoming more probable by the day, that the good times can run a long while.
Before, one might have thought that, given Mary's virginity, Joseph's attitude was reflecting the ambiguities of his status in the family; but now it seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Freudian triangle: over-possessive mother, hostile father, gay son.
And more upheavals in the media industry look probable, now that creditors are piling the pressure on Leo Kirch, a Bavarian media baron whose empire is buckling under huge debts.
