Seriously people??

Gaaah. We've proven without a doubt that I'm much more mellow when I ignore the news. However, when out of the loop and tuning back in, that level of mellowness quickly turns to apoplexy

Due to bond and derivative deal funding (as well as bribes), leaves one municipal works department on verge of bankruptcy Service has already been cut off to a number of outlying areas, and folks in poor areas find it cheaper to buy bottles water for hygiene than to pay their water and sewer bill. But, remember folks, capitalism and deregulation works just because it outlasted communism!

But it's too difficult to prosecute bankers and investment firms

And if we didn't know it from the 1920s and the recession in the 70/80s, Europe has been proving for past 2 years that austerity won't end a recession or grow jobs But hey, it probably means there's no money left over to prosecute bankers and investment firms, or enforce tax laws on the 1% and all those corporate citizens, so who cares, right?

But I got to sit around this weekend hearing my mother and a cousin going on about how horrible it is that people who drive Cadillacs get food stamps or welfare. As if you could survive in the middle of the country without a car.

The only renewable source of energy I know of: the hot air and idiocy of politicians and policy makers. Talk about the definition of insanity