http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html
This is shameful. This has probably already been posted, but I felt the need to do it anyway.
I love this country dammit, but we can't seem to get anything right. Terrorist attacks on our soil, wars, Katrina, oil spill, healthcare reform, financial reform, meltdown, etc. etc. etc. Where does it end? If we tried to go the moon we'd probably end up crashing into the sun at this point (allow me a little creative license with that analogy).
This country is being split apart, the identity and culture torn to shreds. We're nothing but sycophants of the world right now, destroying ourselves, our economy, our health and now our environment. This isn't some hippy, tree-hugging bullshit.
What will it take for all us to finally rally together and figure this out? Another 9/11? Another WWII?
Apologies in advance for the particularly emotive style of this post. While we all sit here and bicker and moan about such minutiae like not getting equal media coverage for conservative issues that no one cares about, our beaches are being destroyed. Our economy, our culture, our global competitiveness and then our beaches.
What can be done to truly reform this country? Forget politicians. Forget parties. What can we do? At some point you just have to acknowledge that it's too damn broken and you need to start near zero and rebuild.