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I read that DB article yesterday and then the criteria for selection. Very lame and, I agree, shameless.DB needs to do better. More like a gossip rag than reliable source for news

i would like us all to please take whatever time is necessary right this instant to see our immediate future. this is america. the tea party is not completely wrong when they complain that government doesn't work. liberals aren't completely wrong when they complain that gotcha capitalism will ruin 90 to 98 per cent of us if we allow it to. arbitrary complications and missteps are more the rule than the exception with very few people, however well-meaning, able to contort a just and proper response out of whatever misguided, mismanaged 'system' they are trying to simply survive within. you probably work in one of these places. your boss is easily frustrated by simple questions mostly because there is no reasonable answer. you know that, with the lone exception of taking home a paycheck, too often what you are doing is only to serve your own survival. not real survival. economic survival. yes, virginia, there is a difference. and most recently we no longer have any excuse to expect anything but worse since our parentless children rank twentyfifth in the world in just about everything but free associating their pointlessness on the social networks. we, that is, each and every american, individually, jointly and severally have absolutely nothing more important to do this very instant than to stop whatever you are doing, understand that the plight which the subjects of this story are suffering today is most certainly your plight tommorrow (perhaps literally) and decide if what you are doing is more important than calling an immediate time out. for ninety, or so, per cent of us it is absolutely not.