Can't be all that bad

So, my guy who hands out cards on the corner of Exchange and Wall Street was back this morning after what seemed like a month-and-a half absence. Good, at least that piece of the space-time continuum is reliably working.

But -- "Big Momma's House II" had the second biggest January opening weekend ever, perhaps as great a sign as any that this spaceship Earth is being readied for terraforming by a CO2-breathing, UV-eating alien race tired of our bungled stewardship of the planet.