Mike Seidle ...notes from the road

You can't escape the BP oil spill in the news. As of today, the Drew Curtis press cycle is stuck in the analyzing how bad the news is phase. That means we get all kinds of speculative doom and gloom stories about the situation.

In case you've never seen it, this is what actual democracy looks like. It's ugly, crass and vulgar. It's about as intellectual as a lynch mob. The people in the US largely delegate running the government to their elected officials so they can get back to important issues like working, paying taxes and watching American Idol.