Where Have I Been?

A blog means responsibility.
I am not a responsible person.
This summer, I spent some time in Europe. Working. I.E. busy. Too busy to dally. But with open eyes, I felt as though I had been transported to Oz (The land of emerald enchantment, not the maximum security prison). New Orleans is a place that barely functions; Europe (or at least the little place I spent a month) functions with eight eco-friendly cylinders firing in perfect unison. Sure taxes are higher and everything costs more, but you know what? It's worth it. I wish I was an apocalyptic nut case, because I'd swear that we here in the states are approaching the end times.
What do we do right? Our leaders are amateurish buffoons; our businesses are greedy, life-force sucking profit machines; our people are generally ignorant (I include myself in that category, so don't complain!). Our neo-con, corporate war machine existence is at odds with "reality" (what ever that is). Instead of going to war with other countries, we should just bomb ourselves. Save mother nature and the rest of the world the trouble. That's what we are trouble. The "Axis of Evil" spins in Washington, D.C. and has left those of us in the middle flatted like the neo-con world view.
Granted I'm naive, but I just wish I could click my heels together, and...