What the Hell?!

Human beings are always amazing me. We are the dumbest smart creatures on the planet (to paraphrase a line from the movie I, Robot). And even though some of the incredibly idiotic things that humans do, do amaze me, they don't really surprise me. It must be the cynical part of me that simply expects that behavior. After all, regardless of what the far right creationists try to blindly believe, we do come from monkeys, and in many cases, it seems we haven't come all that far. Just look at the world of politics. We have the Stalinists, oops! I mean the Republican Party, spending massive amounts of money, obfuscating, lying, doing their best to convince the voting public they will make everything better, but without saying anything about how they will do it. A million ways to say nothing. It reminds of a line from the movie Aliens, when Ripley (the heroine) is comparing humans to the alien monsters, and she says, "You don't see them selling each other out for a buck (dollar)." Good old human greed. 
And as for the rest of us, well, a lot of us seem to just want our lives to go on the way they are. We don't want our boat to get rocked. At least until the world ends, which it seems many people believe will be in their lifetime. Unless of course you're one of the 47%. The poor, elderly, and disabled, who the Klu Klux Kl-oops!- Sorry, I mean the Republicans, want to end any government aid for. As they say on South Park, the Bastards! 
Anyroad. I don't know about how things will be for children born in the future, but these are interesting times indeed. I'm not sure Albert (My sometime black bear roommate) is right about leaving the bears in charge, but even letting the monkeys run things, as far as I can tell, would be no worse than the job we're doing. Sad to say.