Oops, Our Bad

Anyone seeking evidence that our society has run totally amok need look no further than the Hummer. Not that there's any dearth of evidence, but the Hummer takes the cake. With gas prices skyrocketing and America up to its throat in a devestating war that is at it's core about oil, with oil a finite resource fast being depleted, with global warming due primarily to the burning of fossil fuel, with traffic choking our cities, with a large percentage of our population unable to afford health care for their children, people are climbing by themselves into these behemoths to drive back and forth to the mall. It's harder to say who has less of a conscience, the louts who sell them or the jerks that buy them. Our ability to live in denial about the most obvious problems has been exemplified by members of Rev. Ted Haggard's old congregation. Now that the evangelical minister has been dumped from his post for romping with a male prostitute in a Denver hotel room, former parishioners are wondering why they missed the signs that the man they relied on for moral and religious guidance was rotten to the core, you know, little stuff, like cozying up to members of the flock with a smirk on his face asking them to describe their wives orgasms. Those people must drive Hummers.