Not angry yet? Check out this "Satire" on Salon

[MrModerate]

Sure it's satirical, but it's also damn-near literally true. A clip:

Joyce McGreevy March 12, 2005

Listen. Do you hear it? There's something in the air, and it's not just mercury emissions. It's a sound, a feeling, a movement, and like the flock of reporters returning to a courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif., it's growing bigger every day.

All across America, people are witnessing a remarkable transformation. You can see it in the crowding of a school, feel it in the crumbling of a bridge, and smell it in the water from a drinking fountain. It's a new era for a new land, and it's headed your way.

As the poet Walt Whitman might have blogged, "I hear America cringing." Welcome to America Lite. Now with 3,700 percent more deficit!

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/12/new_america/index.html

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