The Amazing Dissolving Nation

James Howard Kunstler writes with wit and acerbity.  As a "post-oil" believer, he has written several books including the Long Emergency and World Made by Hand, which imagine a challenging future as the world's supply of oil diminishes.  His Monday blog Clusterfuck Nation is always controversial, and good for some spirited responses from his readers.  He definitely knows how to bring them out of the woodwork.  Here's an excerpt with Jim's view of the future of global economics from today's blog, The Amazing Dissolving Nation:

Europe has run the money string to its bitter end and now it just remains to be seen how each country blows up and where the dust settles. Greece and Portugal may just shrug and retire on an economy based on goat-cheese and olives. Ireland will get drunk and pass out for at least a century. Spain sinks back into an age-old catatonic daze, having gone broke spectacularly once before. Italy strings up Mr. Berlusconi on a lamp-post and breaks up into 112 warring city-states. France elects DSK, whose first act is to declare war on the City of New York. Religious wars leave England in embers. And Germany becomes the world's first "green" police state.