So I found this piece of paper as I was walking on campus today. On the top was written

“Chronology of the 20th Century”. Below was this numbered list. I am not making this up:

1. Cars (not the movie, that’s later)
2. WWI
3. People get depressed
4. Some other stuff happens
5. WWII
6. Dead Presidents (not the band, that’s later)
7. Bush “wins”
8. 9/11
9. Today
10. Nuclear war/Bush assassinated (sometime late 2009)

I’m hoping this person was being funny when they wrote this. It looked like legitimate college-aged handwriting, so it can’t be from, say, a fourth-grader.

I weep for the future, especially if I’m in it. And especially if the latter part of item number 10 doesn’t occur.