This is how I am feeling right now. I named this blog "Outrage Overload" for a reason... the constant assault on every front is just too much to deal with, and obviously far too much for our so call "liberal" mainstream media to cope with. We have the ongoing idiocy in Iraq, the total debacle on the Gulf Coast, the supreme court about the tilt off the far right deep end, the federal budget so far in the red you need infrared goggles to see it anymore (see this post on Daily Kos for detail) And that's leaving out all the nonsense with the crooks and liars in the House (Delay, Santorum, etc) , traitors in the White House who out CIA agents... ARRGH! It must have been easier in the 60's- the focus was against the war in Vietnam. An single, obvious issue that affected everyone because of the draft. And Civil rights. Two huge issues where the obvious, moral and correct side was clear. I can't imagine that anyone truly in their heart of hearts could have believed that the Vietnam war was a good thing, especially by the late 60's, or that Jim Crow and racism were right.. I know, by the time I am in my 40's I am supposed to be past that sort of romantic naivete. But at least then people paid some attention and were engaged in the issues, one side or the other. Today, with the flood of information available at anyone's fingertips on any issue you can imagine, the most common response of most people to what is going on is Apathy. Go along to get along, nothing you can do about it... Pathetic. I wonder if we are ever going to wake up as a country about any issue again?