Some say the world will end in fire...

 When I was a teenager (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) a new fad hit the fashion world: wide ties and wide lapels on suit and sports jackets.  Yes, the zoot suit from the 1920s was back (or at least part of it). I "borrowed" some of my Dad's old wide ties since I couldn't afford new ones. Mom bought me a wide lapeled sport coat, and I was in high fashion on Sundays going to church. I eventually picked up on the fact that, as book of Ecclesiastes notes, there is nothing new under the sun.  Every "new" idea is just a reworking of an older one. 

So, it was with some amusement today that I noted that the "they" who attempt to keep the population worked up and scared out of their wits are now saying that the earth is headed for a new ice age. This after several decades of claiming that the earth is going to be burning up unless we go back to living like cave men. At the moment they are still tying it into the global warming scare by claiming that warming will create cooling or something. But this whole ice age scare is not new. In the late 1960s the "they" were predicting an oncoming ice age, the solution for which was to give up our modern lifestyle for living again in teepees.  Some things nothing ever changes.

“Vanity[a] of vanities,” says the Preacher;

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

So, gentlemen, save those old ties and bell bottom jeans. You never know when they will come back into fashion. Oh, and here is a little poem on the subject, Fire and Ice by Robert Frost:

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.