I just went out onto the porch with my Orange Softdrink and Kahlua mixed drink (any ... in a storm), pondering the surrealism of the IR changes, and noticed a bright white shooting star zip amazingly fast across the sky, and dissapeared in the same way that planes don't.

The IR alterations are as bizarre as the drink, but not as brilliant as the meteorite. And two of them are giving me the shits right now. Ohh.

But they are hard to comprehend, are they just testing public opinion at the moment? In a lot of situations nowadays, it seems if you want to do something negative, first make it confusing, second keep it secret, and thirdly, so terribly bad that someone who tries to explain it will seem like a scaremonger. I'm thinking FTA, IR, asylum-seeker detention. It's clever, but surely it has to backfire at some point.