As I watch the Senate, the House Dems and the White House wrestle and rant over a bad deal that will, no matter how successful or full of FAIL politically, help almost no one and actually harm a great many people. A lot of ink will be spilled no matter what bargain is struck, but thirty or forty years from now, we will see that this moment was a turning point for our country and by extension the world. Once the safety net is torn out from under us, there will be nothing to prevent millions of elderly Americans from starving, and this is now going to happen. Until recently, I thought horror and human decency might save us, but no. If you voted Republican, you voted for the vile soulless monsters who will make this happen, and if you voted Democratic, you voted for the spineless tools who will do nothing to stop it. We will all be to blame. We will pay for this for decades to come.

In other news, with a simple diet, exercise and meditation, we might get to hang onto minimum wage jobs long enough to put our grandchildren through useless make-believe community college: the new American Dream.