One of my biggest flaws in real life is that I'll drive a point to death and then jump up and down on it some more. Because I don't want to inflict this particular part of myself on the world at large, I find myself not posting as often as I used to, because I can't think of anything to say that isn't a retread of the disgust and dissillusionment I've felt with the world at large, and my government in particular, for the last three years.

It's not that I don't have hope that things will eventually get better - but I think things are going to have get a great deal *worse* before they do. Better and more impassioned voices than mine are screaming (and satirizing) daily, pointing out the godawful mess that we are in. When in my heart all I can muster is a "me to" - why pollute the web with more useless noise?