I don't care. (That is a joke, OK?)

But do you see what I mean? Are we as a country going to go out sputtering and choking because those with the power so decree?

Some things do give me hope. I get more mail from people than I used to, mail that shows that there are people actively working and exploring ways and means. And I meet far more people who forthrightly agree with the idea that something must be done.

And there is the Mudcat. If the proportion of American Mudcatters who are working to make things better in the US to the Mudcatters who not only want the status quo preserved but resent and resist any call to wake up is indicative of what is going on in the US as a whole, the prognosis is brightening.

Guess I'm just in a low spot.