"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those who never listen to music anyway"-Bob Dylan

Is anybody else sick of politics by now? This is a question that I never thought I would ask, because well, I'm really interested in politics. However, recently, it just seems like I can't avoid politics at all. I can't walk to the RCC without seeing the "I get paid to give out pictures of Obama with a Hitler moustache" people. I can't go online without hearing some filmmaker complaining that the country needs full universal health care instead of a revised plan where 5% of people get free health care and the rest get affordable.

I can't turn on the television with out hearing how 65% of people feel Afghanistan war is no longer worth it, and 51% of people think Obama should listen to the generals (Which doesn't even make sense! The generals want to continue the war without an exit strategy, and then invade several other countries over the next 20 years. 65 + 51=116. That means 16% people are contradicting themselves! I'm failing statistics and I still figured that out! Okay, I had my moment). Not to mention the stupid polls seem to change 25 points a day. Who the heck are they polling? They haven't been calling me. I only got called up by the Catholic Church. It was a machine, and it said, "The new health-care bill is going to raise the abortion rate, are you pro-life?" That's a loaded question if I ever heard one. I wonder if the news programs do the same thing. What do they do interview one hundred people phone? I can think of one hundred people that wouldn't answer.

In the end, this is all sort of funny, because I remember in a conversation a few years back I blamed baby-boomers from becoming apathetic during the Clinton-era because times were good. I fear now if this apathy returns from people like me we may lose our voice as a people. But I myself haven't written a political song in months. It just seems as I get older I care more about people than politics. Maybe we need both.