Where are we headed?

Time out in a lay-by, thinking of not very much and listening to a random series of radio channels. I'm a channel flicker of the first, second and third order, talk keeps me going only so long and then I have to search for decent tune, two in a row would be nice but that's rare these days. Meanwhile there are bigger things happening, the air is awash with mysterious dust from the earth's bowel region, politicians are lining up to contradict themselves and one another and the sharp and incisive rays of the sun are providing me with DIY laser eye surgery.

In a parallel universe war has been declared on Iceland.