What I heard on the W Train - The Smirking Chimp

I haven't posted here in a while as I've been working on homeless issues here in St Augustine. Last Thursday, Jan 25, we had our homeless count on a cold, dark and rainy day. If I was miserable walking and driving around, finding empty camps with hanging blankets and talking to working poor waiting for jobs at the job pool, imagine what it would be like to have that experience, all day, everyday with no hope for ever earning enough to secure a warm dry apartment and decent food, let alone a hot shower after a day on a muddy construction site. This article struck me as the kind of mentality we are dealing with now and guess what? This apathy and acceptance of the dismissal of basic human rights extends into our inaction on illegal spying programs, database construction of us and our military age kids, torture, lack of habeus corpus for ALL of us and investigation of the truth of 9/11. This is what we have become: numb, exhausted, disbelieving, untrusting, self centered and fearful drones, filling some sort of necessary role in the whole fiasco playing out before our eyes. Like Dave Matthews sings: Everybody wake up; if you're living with your eyes closed. There's a man with a bomb in his hands....