Lisa Null shared a link on Facebook to the following op-ed in the Washington Post that is worth passing on. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congresss-tragedy-of-the-commons/2011/06/02/AGZ6JZHH_story.html. After I read it and reflected, I realized that not just congressmen and women ought be more mindful of trash-talking the institutions of our government, but the rest of us might want to think about changing some of our own rhetoric.