Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

You've heard the zen saying about if a tree falls in the woods and nobody's there to hear it, does it actually make a sound. I'm wondering, if you talk to yourself and no one else is listening, did you actually say anything? Or to put it another way, if you talk and people are listening but not really paying attention, are you making any sense? To me this sums up the 2008 presidential campaign. Already it seems like it's been going on forever, and we still have half a year to go before the primaries even start. Which is really scary because there's a war on costing billions of dollars and countless lives that nobody seems to have a clue what to do about. And that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems we face. Is anybody listening?