If you were writing the encyclopedia, (wikipedia?), entry for ‘Power Struggle’, this past week could have offered nearly every variation of the term. There were the on-going struggles for personal and political power in the middle east as well as in every legislative body around the globe, the sadly ineffective struggle against the power of Nature, the haphazard and dangerous struggle to understand and harness the power we create, and that NCAA thing. In the name of fair and balanced lexicography, you may also consider the common thread between them, that, in the end, all of these struggles are frivolous:

• Revolution may lead to the overthrow of one dastardly regime or another, but, because humans are involved, new dastards, (I know…but it should be), will arise.
• You can’t mess with Mother Nature.
• As long as the production and consumption of power is the for-profit foundation of the global economy, we will continue to ignore the fact that the way we have been doing it, (fossil fuels, nuclear reactors, hydrofracking, etc.), will likely destroy our planet.
• And when the basketball version of ‘March Madness’ can so easily replace the devastation and potential worldwide nuclear disaster version, well…gooooo Aztecs!