NATION: "The Decade From Hell: .... and how the next one can be better," by Andy Serwer, Time, 7 December 2009.

Really? A "decade from hell"? With global GDP tripling over 8 short years, only to see the world economy suffer it's first truly global crisis and then pull through with no significant great-power conflicts whatsoever and a recovery that surprises damn near everybody?

That's the "decade from hell"?

Time used to be a serious magazine. Now it's just op-eds and this sort of silly, over-the-top stuff.

It reads like come-ons to my local evening news.

Do yourself a favor and renew your subscription to The Economist.

Then be unafraid! Be very unafraid!