It is almost Memorial Day here in the normally-blustery city of Wichita. The birds are chirping, the sun is rising – illuminating the trees in a magnificently backlit way – and I am flying the American flag (a quite unusual expression for me) in memory of my departed father, a WW II vet.

It is a deceivingly-pleasant picture for a world about ready to plunge into a global shitfest of biblical proportions. The Gulf of Mexico plague is upon us, brought about by need, greed and speed. Enough blame to go around everywhere, including addiction to excessively-cheap oil, lax regulatory oversight and a chain of human errors that has led to this catastrophic bleeding of crude oil from the bowels of the earth.

The first reports of ‘oil rain’ are coming in from Florida. The lying bastards at BP continue to under-report the size of the oil volcano. The use of chemically-toxic dispersants hides the extent of the plague, and will come back to bite the ass of existence when it becomes apparent the ocean is dying from oil plumes that reach into the conveyer belt of the Atlantic current.

Some believe this is the judgment of god for a nation gone off track. But whose god? The god of the Arabs, the god of the Jews, the god of the Christians, the God of the dollar? I would talk about the god of the Indians, but those poor men are dealing with the aftermath of a re-circulated BBC story from 2006 in which it was reported that ‘standard-sized’ condoms are too big for Indian men. Shit! And this is who we outsourced our county to? Maybe they can hide the size of their organs through phone sex.

I tend to think of this mostly as karmic payback, where our long-delayed debts of greed and excess are coming due. Unlike congressional TARP funds or the recent Trillion dollar European bailout – where we are kicking the financial can continuously down the road – the ecological bill may be coming due. Expect a quick trail and conviction, followed by a speedy execution.

Things are starting to move fast around the planet. Think clearly, Observe without judgment or reaction, and Love deeply.