Mortality

Coyne nails it today.  Not that his subject matter is compelling.  A lifelong loser just arrested for drunk driving (note:  DRUNK driving, not MADD's new crime of drinking and driving) bursts into song, Bohemian Rhapsody, and he becomes an Internet sensation.  Who cares, really?  But this small passage is the nugget in the poop pile:

We're born, we work, we struggle, we suffer, and just when we are starting to figure it all out, we snuff it. In the Tragic View of the Universe, this is deeply unfair, fuel for a lifetime of resentment. In the Comic View of the Universe, it is sublimely funny, a great cosmic joke God plays on us all.

And that's life for you.  There is no great meaning to life except to live it.  That's the test we must pass every day and we all fail it at some point.