I'm sure it's not lost on anyone. The irony that some of these ME/N African countries are giving to their citizens what our lawmakers are trying to take away from us hand over fist.
It's disorienting, dismaying, discouraging. All the major disses.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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