It's Discouraging

Lately, I haven't had the heart to write about the issues that concern me.

Except for Ron Paul, who hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of being nominated, the Republican candidates continue to focus on the minutia and ignore the staggering challenges our country and our world face.

Access to birth control, a battle I thought convincingly won over 50 years ago has somehow morphed into a religious issue? What kind of b-s is that?

Popular reaction thwarted the passage of SOPA and a dozen bills sprang up to replace it, some of them far worse.

Congresspersons continue carte blanche insider trading despite the "so-called reform" they passed. Seems like Nancy Pelosi and Eric Canter actually have been "comrades in arms" all this time, despite their partisan press releases.

Hundreds of thousands of Occupy demonstrators failed to make the slightest dent in the rhetoric of Washington's lawmakers. The 1 percent will probably shrink to an even more powerful .5 percent. Billionaires are funding our national elections and writing their own tickets into the future.

The Federal Justice system under the Obama administration has cracked down on medical marijuana, protected Wall Street and militarized the nation's police forces.

Hints of an upcoming war with Iran permeate online media.

Hydrofracking appears on the fast track in my home state of New York.

No, I haven't had much heart for writing this blog lately (sigh).