Health care crisis, gun violence, homophobia, Islamophobia, predatory bankers, rising sea levels, droughts, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, landscapers, restaurant workers and domestic engineers going without Cadillac health insurance, disability and food stamps and government subsidized housing...  "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". My God it's tiresome living in the sorriest country in the history of the planet!  After a couple of news cycles, a visitor to our humble nation from another universe would expect to find people dying in the streets from disease and neglect, assuming of course, that they were lucky enough to escape the gun violence that constitutes "just another weekend in the Windy City".  They would expect to see roving gangs of white conservative Tea Party affiliated vigilantes and bankers that look like the Monopoly dude lynching homosexuals, Mexicans and Muslims, and God help a homosexual Mexican Muslim....(Read Full Post)