Beware watching FOX. When you least expect it, Palin will say, “Come to the light!” and you could be drawn into a force called the dumbing-down of America.

The overwhelmingly negative response of the American public to Rush Limbaugh’s interest in purchasing an equity stake in the Saint Louis Rams football franchise is just one indication of the growing enmity between the conservative, right-wing fringe and mainstream America.  Limbaugh and his Fox news cohorts, Hannity, Beck and O’Reilley have taken every opportunity to attack the Obama Administration and the Congressional Democrats, while offering almost no viable alternatives to the complex problems that face Americans.
The problems of race relations in America have been re-kindled and fueled by Limbaugh’s belittling …

Sometimes it seems as if the  whole world is spinning madly out of control.  The omnipresent media outlets, such as CNN and Fox News, along with the constant drone of talk radio shows, are always there to remind us of every twist and turn in every news story across the globe.  Every nuance of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been covered in great detail; every word of the proposed health care bill has been parsed and re-parsed for the slightest tinge of meaning; every economic statistic has been interpreted …