The News

After not being "tuned in" over the weekend, I've caught up on the recent news. Lets just say that I have no energy or inclination to rant about it right now. There's tons and tons of really disturbing news out there today, from Laura Bush (wife of the horse masturbator) receiving nothing but protests on her trip, including narrowly avoiding a blood bath because the security was not up to snuff... all the way up to the continuation of the Pat Tillman tragedy.

Okay.. I have to comment a bit on the Tillman story. Read it here..

The brazen lying of the Army and of our government is amazing. But - I keep going back to pointing my finger at the American public. In each new tragedy I read about every day, I react with a great deal of empathy because I always consider these situations as if it could be me, or somebody I care about. I believe in justice for the harm that one person causes another. Is there any justice for the Tillman family? Is there any justice for the family of the innocent Iraqi that was chained to a ceiling and left to die by the Army?

Is there any reason to believe that the wholesale death and destruction that is gripping the world will pass any of us by?

The news is merely symptomatic of the average American. Wonder why Enron happens? Americans. How about George Bush winning not just one, but two elections? Americans. An illegal war? Abu Graib? Michael Jackson? Run away brides? 8 billion dollars simply "lost" in Iraq - and nobody caring about it at all? It is the American of the 21st century.

Pat Tillman being killed by American soldiers - and the army and George Bush using it as a recruiting device? That falls squarely on the shoulders of the American public.

It makes me crazy how stupid most people are. Go out and ask a random group of Americans who killed Pat Tillman. I'd guess half would say "Pat who?". The other half would said "the Taliban?"

America has proven there is no accountability. It probably started with O.J.

Is it deliberate? Is there really a deliberate plot to dumb down America? Is it something in the water?

"Maybe lying's not a big deal anymore," he said. "Pat's dead, and this isn't going to bring him back. But these guys should have been held up to scrutiny, right up the chain of command, and no one has."

"If this is what happens when someone high profile dies, I can only imagine what happens with everyone else."