Marty Kaplan Wants to Know What Happens Next

Marty Kaplan
HuffPost

Something's going to happen next week, or next year, that will completely change the story.

Maybe it'll be an earthquake -- a literal one, the 7.8 that seismologists are urgently warning Californians to get ready for, and a figurative Big One that divides millions of people's lives into Before and After.

Or maybe it'll be a "what were we thinking?" moment, like the bursting of the housing bubble, that retroactively connects the economic dots into a saga about human folly.

Or maybe, God forbid, it'll be an assassination, or an act of nuclear terrorism, or the melting of the polar ice cap, some catastrophe in whose revisionist hindsight today's Cassandras will be seen as Paul Reveres.

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