5/23/2007
I’m sure there are still some starry-eyed optimists out there, but lately, everybody I know is fed up with with the way things are going. Maybe it was tax bills, or the impeachment vote, or colony collapse disorder, but I feel as though we collectively sagged over the last few months. For me it was the Virginia Tech shootings, a weekend during which (coincidentally) over 150 people died in Baghdad. I kind of fell apart, and was starting to think there might be something wrong with me when my neighbor mentioned in passing that she had been feeling the same way.
Misery loves company. I was relieved to know that I was not the only one who couldn’t take any more bad news. Since that dreary weekend, I’ve run into a surprising number of people near and far who feel, as I do, that something’s got to give. Many Americans seem to be ready for a change to something inspiringly different. Read More
