EDITORIAL - The events of the past few weeks have shaken us all. Memorial services continue across the world for those lost in the Great Impact, as the devastating asteroid barrage has come to be known. Millions upon millions of people remain homeless, refugees in their own countries. Despite the confident-sounding pronouncements from governments across the world from Africa to New Zealand, I fear that there are too few solutions, for too few people, to prevent more deaths. As winter continues to hold the northern hemisphere in its icy grasp, and hurricanes and floods continue to ravage the southern, millions remain in grave danger.
And now we have the Great Revelation, perhaps as psychologically devastating as the Great Impact. our neighbors and co-workers, elected politicians and entrepreneurs alike suddenly revealed to us that they are - even after days to grapple with the idea, the concept seems impossible and the word sounds somehow wrong in our mouths and in print - vampires.
You don't need me or The Weekly Journal to tell you that change is stressful. The loss of huge pieces of our greatest cities and the emergence of creatures from what used to be merely mythology has me profoundly shaken.
Something is coming. Something big. Change is in the air. I don't know whether this is the time to draw your curtains, lock your doors, and hide under the covers… or whether we should all take to the streets and make a mighty noise.
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