Well, this is terrifying.

A recent tweet from Dave Ramsey:

If the US Gov was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, and are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget and debt, reduced to a level that we can understand.

I really do not want to witness the collapse of the world's economy. I hope it happens way after I die.

I'm pretty sure this is our first step toward Skynet, but I might as well watch anyway.

"Keep smiling, Ken. I'm planning your fiery death."

So I'm watching the Jeopardy-Watson challenge, in which two of Jeopardy's greatest champions face off against Watson, an IBM computer that can understand idiosyncrasies in the English language. After the first round, Watson is womping on Ken Jennings; it's embarrassing, really. Interestingly, he doesn't know not to repeat an incorrect answer if another contestant has already given it, but he does pronounce Jean Valjean correctly, so that's impressive. Except that he does it in a creepy "open the pod bay doors, Hal!" computer voice, so that's disconcerting.

The IBMers in the audience are looking pretty pleased with themselves. I just hope they're not leading us into a nuclear holocaust that will force us to invent time travel in order to save the world.