Post 5.14 - Where ya been?
Hello again. I apologize for this period of radio silence. I'd been writing consistently for several weeks, and I needed a break. Mostly because I found myself getting angry, and I just didn't know how to keep this blog from becoming a constant, curmudgeonly rant. You see, I'm just an average, well-educated American. I vote in every election, even my local elections, because it makes me feel like I am part of the process. I also read a lot so that I can be informed about my candidates and the issues, and so I can know what I'm talking about when it comes time to make my opinion known. Even for this blog, I research topics before I write about them -- even if I give an opinion, I try to give a basis for that opinion, or give my readers somewhere else to turn for more information. But lately, I am enormously discouraged. My four core topics are food, politics, sex & relationships, and pets/animals. In the US, we pay subsidies to agro-industries for specific...