Sometimes I wonder about our country. I wonder how we can let ourselves be stuck in the situations we find ourselves and not speak out, or vote out the people responsible.

I see the government getting ready to provide massive bailouts to the banking industry as they foreclose on homeowners who made ill-advised borrowing decisions based on unsound lending practices, and I know that we will let it happen.

I see a war in Iraq that we actually had some passion about for while, but that was few months ago and now we are pretty much rolling over on that one too.

I see a government that tramples civil rights and practically laughs in the face of feeble attempts at oversight, while a legislative maneuver delays the FISA bill so the passion will recede on that too. And we go along with it.