Where Media Chafes

Where's the people saying the things that need to be said!

Where other than the margins!@*!

Why isn't anyone saying we should save our domestic oil resources for when our great-grandchildren might desperately need them?

How long have we known that the pharmaceutical, oil, and energy companies have been making hand over fist? and meanwhile, how many lives have been ruined by medical costs, urban pollution, and high heating/utilities costs?

Why can't science figure out a way to make dogs and cats get along together?

Why doesn't the whole nation collectively bargain to make it cheap to get a massage every week? Okay, maybe the whole State then?

Is farming really so bad that practically nobody wants to do it on a large scale other than Monsanto ilk?

Can't we teach students to spot bullshit politicians when they see them? like - "stranger, stranger"?

Why aren't the gas companies taking the Carbon out of the fuel, and using it in conjunction with green growing things to make oxygen and biofuels and leaving our cars with something cleaner to burn?

Why can't we just build a national electric car to be used by the Postal Service that anyone can buy for a minimal monthly payment with guaranteed functionality or replacement?

Do we really need all those fucking street lights everywhere? Crimeny! Have you ever flown at night? It's so damn pretty it blinds you even a quarter mile up! Can't we, I don't know, save some energy by turning the lights out? Or should we just rename the whole country "Las Vegas" or "Afraid of the Dark to the Tune of Trillions of light bulbs"?

Weren't victory gardens a great idea? And since most of the things the government declares "war" on these days - terrorism, drugs, poverty, etc. - since most of them are more like ideas than actual "things" you could make "war" on and then make them go away through your careful or feverish application of force, shouldn't we be looking at our society systematically and calling everything that has negative impacts into question? You know, like what real reform is supposed to be like? Not topical or shallow finger wagging, but regime change, paradigm change, or at the very least some kind of aggressive transparency campaign through Washingtoon.

Who decided that we need only 3 or 4 hours of Presidential Debates with only 2 candidates?

Why aren't either of the two talking about voting reform including instant run-off voting, barometer vital statistics like infant and mother mortality rates or the number of incarcerated citizens, setting records straight in regard to US domestic and foreign economic policies and partial (and temporary) usurpation of government by the industrial, financial, and political elites?

Did anyone ever get held accountable for all the crazy shit that has happened in the last 10 years? 20? 50?

Does anyone realize that the missle defense network we're setting up in key areas around the world could start another arms race with many more nuclear powers on the globe?

Didn't Dick Cheney redraw the electoral district maps in Texas personally? Meanwhile, does anyone on this planet actually trust Dick Cheney?
Shouldn't we do something like, about that, or redraw that map?
Hello?

With kids getting bigger and less healthy, isn't that kind of an emergency, and shouldn't we do something about that right now - like maybe legislate the nutritional content per dollar requirements of commercial food manufacturers?

If there aren't as many jobs and not much economic prosperity, and even though it will cause some challenges to arise here and there, shouldn't we be able to wisely reduce our economy, at home and at work, to best maintain our lifestyle and reflect our values?

Isn't it obvious that the Non-Governmental Organizations that have risen through popular grassroots support are pretty much in the lead when it comes to setting an example to the rest of us for what our goals as a human species should be?

Since the U.S. Auto Industry - regardless of who's "fault" it may have or have not been - summarily fell into top heavy failure via stagnant technologies and fell far astray of top-line thinking, shouldn't there be some kind of change in leadership or re-organization?

Shouldn't we be listening to the auto workers more, like we should listen to the teacher more, the journalist more, children more, history more, science, the triumphs and methods of other places with other cultures... more than we hear now?

Why shouldn't we do these things?

Why aren't they already happening?

Where do we go if we can't see where we are?

Did anyone in the history of the world ever imagine a place as large, diverse, and complex as the social, political, and economic landscape that we're inundated with every day as reward for waking up and getting out of bed? This place we're a part of? This place we belong to? Or should belong to.

What We Need

We need to train a generation of farmers, machinists, inventors, philosophers, preventative doctors, fitness experts, lawyers and judges, builders, teachers, professors, and most of all, leaders who also know how to follow, and who to follow.

to set an example for a generation of politicians,

to feed everyone with homespun technology

to part with daily routines as we know them

to find paths through soft terrain like money

to remove old landmines that nobody needed

to teach reason wisdom deep thought and ethics

to a generation we're too busy to take by the hand

too scared to risk reaching to hold a hand

to make damn sure we get a few things 100 % right

to as much as we'd like get together without barriers

to make hope out of harps for angels we bear

to make crops out of seasons and lay in the soil

to let affairs be few but matters be great

to make after each sentence some thought

to make better the reality everyone bought.

Some of Today's Headlines From TheOnion.com

Congress to raise Alpacas to aid struggling economy.

Recession-Plagued Nation demands new Bubble to invest in.

Bush Calls For Panic - President to Nation: 'remain nervous'

Extreme Weather Alert: Meteorologists Call for Intensely Brisk Autumn

U.S. Debt to Outgrow Debt Clock

Scott Bakula Jumps Into McCain's Body Just Before Election

Obama Under Fire For Playing T-ball During Vietnam

Breast Cancer Launches WNBA Awareness Month