Free Republic

[I'll be brief and to the point; do me a favor, and either read before posting, or don't post at all, willya?]I'll admit, Mondays in general seem to hit me harder than they used to. But it seems to me as if the drum beat of the news has been going from bad to worse, with precious little to break it on the national scale. I figure I'm not the only one here who feels that way.My purpose in this essay is to lay out what is making me feel so gloomy, and to invite anyone and everyone to share...