I don't want to brag, but I am not dead, in case there were any concerns on that front.

It seems that every other week features the world threatening to collapse in on itself, or at least those parts of it surrounding New Washington. It would be novel to have a world where I don't have to be concerned about the corner store being looted when I need to go buy milk, but the political climate is as it is. It seems the more logical course of action would be to find the person currently running the book, and find the odds on the next catastrophe being, oh, various cell phone satellites falling out of the sky, throwing communications into disarray and causing (of course) city-wide riots, but making the cinema a more enjoyable experience.

Eight-to-one, do you think?