Shame

Note to my friends in the northeast: please dress in bright clothing for the next few days. Try not to look like an elderly white lawyer for the weekend. Dick Cheney is going hunting somewhere up there.

I'm not proud to be an American; I've said it before and I'll say it again, this time with fewer links. Been sitting here thinking and I realized that I cannot come up with even three reasons to be proud of my country today. Shit, the only two that come to mind are our National parks (which are badly underfunded) and our highway system which is crumbling.

There is a guy I do business with in India, we've done business together for two years. We chit chat a lot in emails and talk about family and even a very, very little about politics. He is muslim. It is pretty goddamned sad to talk to him over the phone and hear him ask if I have heard that somewhere in Texas there is a concentration camp for muslims? Is this true?

Well of course it's true.

That is just so goddamn shameful I can't think of anything else to say.