apathy

In case you missed this:

“Father God,

This week, as the world looks on, help the leaders in this room create a civil dialogue about our future.

We need you, God, as individuals and also as a nation.

We need you to protect us from our enemies, but also from ourselves, because we are easily tempted toward apathy.

Christine Anne Piesyk bemoans the turnout in Montogemery’s primary election day and implies that the squeaker primary between Rosalind Kurita and Tim Barnes would have been different had there been more of an impressive display of civic engagement.

Amen to Katie Allison Granju.

I’ve sort of been out of politics for a few days, being reckless and cranky and not giving a damn about my very own apathy.

This morning, as I started to feel like a human being again, I was reading about the Obama World Wide Tour Aught Eight.

I never thought there would come a time when I would care this little about baseball.  The All-Star game is tonight, and I don’t think it’s possible for me to care any less.  Baseball really has no soul left for the most part.  There are a couple of exceptions–a few weeks ago I was in Chicago for Friday’s game between the Cubs and the White Sox.  Cubs tickets are alw

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury.

Since getting kinda-sorta sacked (I really will explain later, but I'm trying to avoid getting semi-dooced, so sorry for being vague), this glorious perspective has descended upon me. It was already coming, honestly, but I was in denial for a while about it.