The current shitshow in this country that has all of us reeling leaves me at a loss to adequately express my thoughts. I call myself a writer, yet I don’t know how to intelligently convey the anger and grief I feel every time I reluctantly peek at the NPR news feed.

Feeling uninspired to even try to tackle this topic, I still feel obliged to acknowledge this era in our nearly 20-year old blog that started on March 22, 2007. I didn’t feel like writing this week, but then inspiration hit tonight. I happened to stumble into a genius George Carlin clip that precisely explains everything I’m feeling right now.

Ironically, this clip is 20 years old but ol’ George could have performed it today.

The Truth About the American Dream

It’s too bad none of us took this as seriously as we should have in 2005.

And now I’m wondering, how the hell did YouTube know how I was feeling?

The answer? That’s easy. It’s called Surveillance Capitalism. Duh.