Sometimes it gets to me.

Often I can look at the world around me and find something amusing, but tonight I have to admit that I am mainly profoundly saddened by the state of the human condition. Republican Foley and his pedophilia. Amish schoolgirls being executed. Bush and his Nazi cohorts taking another blatant whack at civil liberties. Violence in Iraq escalating. Genocide running unchecked in Darfur. Afganistan largely controlled by the Taliban. Hurricane victims still unable to go home to New Orleans.

This is a country choking on its own sense of privelege, amid a world rife with ignorance, prejudice, and greed. Our idea of a crisis is gas prices that are 50% of what the rest of the world pays. Many Americans would stand up and take objection to what I write here tonight, but most would go back to "Deal or No Deal" and promptly forget.

I'll let Steppenwolf say the rest

[Speaking of America]
"And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster "
John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Larry Byrom 1970