Keepin' It Light

Damn, there is a lot of depressing things going in the world.

There's no doubt that I could write a post every day about something really depressing-- how many people died in Iraq or how many soldiers got their limbs blown off or were blinded or were mentally damaged or how many people were poisoned by depleted uranium or how the Bush administration initiated so much death and destruction for purely evil reasons.

I could do that, and it is important to keep coming back to these issues.

But it is too depressing to do that every day, and just because I don't talk about the evil every day, doesn't mean that it isn't there.

I also assume that people don't come here to get depressed.

All this is just to point out that while often times I may be flip or sarcastic here, I know the stakes are dead serious. I try to "keep it light" here to maintain some sense of balance-- because there is an awful lot of good stuff out there in the world and it simply isn't healthy to dwell on the shit all the time.


Speaking of keeping it light.