Very perceptive...
I blame Canada, um, I mean, I blame the Large Hadron Collider having caused a breach in the space-time continuum (or, at least it seems to have poked a good-sized hole into the inner workings of subspace and special relativity)...
How else can you explain a world where there's a dedicated America-hating Marxist in the White House?
There's nothing left to ensure that time flies like an arrow (or whatever)...
Fruit flies like a banana.