…the North Koreans are very, very close to being able to lob a nuclear war-headed missile somewhere horrifying and the Antarctic ice sheet is melting at an alarming and irreversible rate that will devastate much of the planet in the too near future and hackers are able to shut down practically anything at will and radicalism of all kinds is on the rise, I’ve got a boil on my ass and legislators want to defund the arts and Planned Parenthood, a scary percentage of the country’s roads and bridges are crumbling and unsafe, the power grid has not been seriously overhauled since the ‘70s, health care availability in the US is abysmal, elementary education is shamefully deteriorating, secondary education is unaffordable, insurance companies and investment bankers and faceless multi-leveled corporations, (the mythical 1%), control 90+% of the wealth with minimal magnanimity for the 99…and our bumbling, brutish, seismically unqualified, treasonously egomaniacal President has sucked so much air out of the room that none of these topics can find purchase as a headline.