The Meaning of Life in George Bush's America...Whoops, I Meant "Baaah!"

"Where have all my heroes gone." That's a lyric of a song, a real tearjerker, I'm working on entitled, "Where Are All the Herders, Now That the Sheep Are Restless?" It has to do with the meaning of life in George Bush's America. According to a blog posted on In The Pink Texas, at http://www.inthepinktexas.com/ our President was at a press conference in Kansas this afternoon defending his domestic spying program. He's quoted as saying, "It's amazing, people say to me, "Well, he's just breaking the law," If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?" You can't be serious, can you, Mr. Pres.? Yeah, right, that's like a drug dealer asking a morally and professionally corrupt law enforcement official where all the "Heat" is going to be, so he could steer clear while making his shipment, or as people in Cameron County, here in South Texas, have come to call it, 'business as usual'. Please, the President was briefing a Republican Majority Congress. Sure, there were a few Dem's thrown in the mix, but jesus, "Who Among Thee?" eh? Which leads me to the theme of my song. Questioning and standing up for your rights against any government policy both legal and illegal, expressed or implied, is so 'passee' in this country. So Nineties. What's in now is crowding around the glass tit like a bunch of sheep in a pasture just following what the rest of the herd believes as fact. Nowadays, if you count yourself as one these "independent, free thinking" types, don't count on being one for too long. Not in this era, and not any time soon. There will come a time when you eat what's being fed to you, and go where you are told to go. As my writing hero, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "Soon come, Bubba, soon come". Man, oh man, where are the Mavericks when you need them. It's enough to drive a young man crazy. Whoops, did I say that? I meant, "Baaah!"