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Creative expression of the tragic goings on weighing so many of us down. Thanks for sharing this. Great write.

I still remember my eighth grade science teacher, who was a mild mannered old Christian fellow who never spoke of his personal beliefs.

I think he knew that the more sensitive the audience, the less the need for shouting.

Very easy for me to read into this political sentiments, however I don't want to project. Very thoughtful social critique.

Your instincts for sentiment do not fail you, and my own instincts have never allowed me to trust the loudest guy in any room. So yeah, that automatically rules out Bill O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush, televangelists, and most MAGA maniacs.

How about the balloon conspiracy lovers or the Super Bowl commentator who calls Rupert Murdoch "brilliant"?

There's a rare but certain type of instigative personality who should never be allowed to have the resources of a billionaire and most definitely should never have editorial control over mass (and therefore public) media, where the ethics of community safety and responsibility must be considered at all times.

I understand the primitive jock logic in calling Mr. Murdoch's instigative instincts "brilliant", but clearly the commentator was unable to detect, or give a damn, about Mr. Murdoch's instincts as agents of social sabotage. It needs to be argued, in court, that what Fox does is not just a violation of ethics, but of the law itself.

I keep reading this again and again

It's tragic the way some knuckle draggers misspend their wealth.  

Thank you, and thanks for reading!

I am in perpetual astonishment at how many of my fellow countrymen have been duped into thinking that the way out of American troubles is for them tp be even more unpleasant than they were before.