Green Stuff

I admire Barack Obama, and I believe he's going to be a solid president. His State of the Union speech was everything everybody wanted it to be, in turns dire and hopeful, somber and uplifting. But one didn't need to watch it. All that was necessary was to listen to the pundits sniping afterward to get a sense of the shape our country's in, shattered and divided, with no clear direction. Obama called for a new era of responsibility and I thought, "oh cool, wouldn't it be nice if we tried that for a change."