What?

 I am amazed at the things that we humans up with put. Not the least of these would be prepositions at the end of sentences. 

Let's start with the "breaking news" about the weather trends across the globe as the seasons begin to change. Polar vortex? Atmospheric river? Cities turning into the New Atlantis? Because we were not willing to embrace the stark reality of climate change. We are those frogs in the pot of water, enjoying the spa effect as we are slowly boiled alive. 

How about the global conflicts? We can shrug off most of them simply because the buildings being blown up somewhat indiscriminately are not next door. We like to kid ourselves that the world is not at war because drones have not landed in our own back yards. Approximately six hundred forty people are dying every day in places like Ukraine, Sudan, and Ethiopia. The United States government, apparently not content to simply kidnap and intimidate its own citizens, have decided to take on the global threat of Venezuela. The newly re-branded Department of War is taking its new moniker seriously and going full steam ahead without even tapping the breaks as it blew past Congress to initiate Operation Southern Spear. 

Happy here in our economic vortex to fret about putting Thanksgiving dinner on the table while twenty-five thousand people die each day from hunger on our planet. Ten thousand of those deaths are children. Fifty-six of those daily deaths from starvation are Americans. 

The stupid, evil narcissist currently tearing down the White House is a convicted felon who was caught sending hush money to an adult film actress to cover up his affair. Before he was elected the first time, a videotape was released with him bragging about all the things "stars" could do to women and they were directly in line with what you would expect from a man who was found guilty of raping a woman in a New York department store. And now we all stand around wondering just what might be inside The Epstein Files. 

How do we continue to stumble around with our eyes fixed squarely on the ground while events continue to lead us ever closer to one cliff after another? How do these people keep their jobs? How do they stay out of jail? How do we continue to put up with it? How did we elect that same stupid, evil narcissist a second time? 

I guess that's where we're at.