This is in reply to an article in the Something Cool News (to who I owe that most interesting title), www.somethingcool.ca, aticle found at the link below.

Fred, Fred, Fred…

An old apocalyptican like yourself does not recognize the appearance of Psycho Killer Racoons and that story being reported loudly on the ABC website as a sign of the approaching apocalypse?

Alternatively I suppose that you could take it as a genetic consequence of years of mistreating the environment. No – not the racoons, who are only acting naturally, but human beings. What else besides genetic and brain damage as a result of environmental excesses could explain this taking place. Yes I know we are speaking of Americans, but not even Americans can be that stupid without factoring in genetic and mental damages inflicted by environmental poisonning.

I suppose it does not really matter. Approaching Apocalypse or brain damage the result will be the same since, in a Universe set in motion to evolve intelligent live, even if it is only genetics and brain damage the Universe would have no other option but extinction of the humans to permit evolution to take another shot at evolving an intelligent species. In either case the effect, and thus from the view of humanity, is the same.