As you avid readers of this blog should have deduced by now The Insomniac has been sleeping well the past several months. Lately, however, he has become more and more restless at night and has been mulling over all the things wrong with this nation and this world.
The entire globe has been racked with terrorism, natural disasters, pandemic flu and extreme weather. The Insomniac worries that the issues are not being addressed in a thoughtful and straightforward way but rather seized upon to make political gains. This must stop if the world as we know it is to survive. But, alas, there are those who do not want the world as it is but instead want to mold it into whatever their ideology dictates.
Radio, television and the internet are being used to foster polarization on these issues. What passes for debate is just the different sides yelling their "talking points" at one another. There seems to be no common ground and no spirit of cooperation to attain reasonable solutions.
The Insomniac fears there are many more sleepless nights ahead.
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