The Dog Days of Summer.

[kentuck]

Maybe it's the heat?

Anger and emotion are waxing with the moon. Every day the moon gets fuller and more people are getting angrier and more emotional.

When does it end? At the first snowfall?

They are fighting over whether we should have the insurance companies in charge or our government, the people, in charge? Your health has become a valuable commodity. Billions and billions of dollars are made each year off of sick people. And they make even more off you if you are dying.

But in these hot days of summer, no one can seem to agree on anything. They don't trust each other in the least. Some believe it is a grand conspiracy to kill old people and get them out of the way. How does one counter such a belief?

Sometimes the bully strolls out into the middle of the street looking for a fight. If you want to walk straight ahead, you have to go past the bully. There is no other way around it. He yells at you. He calls you a "socialist" and other names. You keep walking. But he grabs you by the shirt. What do you do? So are the dog days of summer.

[orleans]

1. we screen ids and stop letting these freaks into the health care town halls this month n/t