What’s wrong with U.S.?

What IS wrong with us? What’s wrong with the collective “you?”
Here’s what’s jacked-up my brain lately:
Question 1) What size breasts did Anna Nicole Smith have?
Question 2) How many soldiers died in Iraq last week?
Answer honestly to both.
This is what chaps my ass. I would wager that most people know the answer to the first question over the second. Not purposely, I hope.
The answer to number one is; huge. The more relevant answer to number two is; ask Doe-Doe.
I’m not blaming every American here. Actually, if I polled my friends I’d bet they would rather hear about our kids overseas than where they’re gonna fucking bury some dead woman who leaves behind a couple of silicone implants. No disrespect meant to any fans of the late pseudo-blonde. It’s just that I can’t put a grasp on why it is of such paramount importance to know whether she died of a methadone overdose or her boyfriend whacked her. Thank heaven for PBS. That’s where my money is. Thank you to WJCT for your daily and silent vigilance. Your knowing of things important. Like a family from a small town in Idaho is now childless thanks to an insane war. A mother grieves in Waycross, Georgia because her daughter won’t be coming home for Sunday dinner. A boy will never hear his father’s voice in Denver, Colorado because “The few, the proud, the Marines,” lied to his dad. Iraqi’s are dying by the hundreds, too. Did we forget about them? The civilian population?
We rage inside every day because no one is hearing. We have our own war to contend with right here, folks. The war against the media, the war against hatred, the war against standing behind what we think everyone else may be standing behind. The Dixie Chicks won a grammy. The wave is coming. We need to stand together and silence the bullshit. We do not care as much about Ms. Smith as we do John/Jane Doe over “there.” Let’s get pissed off. We know in our hearts what to fight for, don’t we? Or am I just out on a limb here?

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