Blog Bogged

Sometimes I think blogging is not a good idea.

For example, I took some time this morning to read some of my archived material and realized that once I blogged with humor and wit; said fuck a lot; made my own self laugh; tackled controversial subjects; wrote with passion and pizzazz.

Now I seem to have given up blogging for bogging. I don’t care that Blogshares says this is a growing blog and HOLD…I say it’s a sinking blog and DUMP.

It makes me wonder just what is so damned different this year from last year. Why was I spirited and sassy then - when now my writing is more like an annoying faucet drip?

I can’t blame it on posting photos as I started that one day when I had nothing to say. Well, that’s not true, I always have something to say, but suddenly I decided I wasn’t going to share it anymore.

Did I get too polite to rant and rave or too tired of ranting and raving and finding no solutions to my constant fear that our country is going to hell?

I don’t want to live in a country where homosexuals have fewer rights than I have.

I don’t want to live in a country where innocent people are killed because of a George Bush lie.

I don’t want to live in a country where every other civilized nation is aware of global warming except us and our administration.

I don’t want to live in a country that does not offer health care to all people who need it.

I don’t want to live in a country where a woman’s right to choose the destiny of her own uterus is being questioned.

I don’t want to live in a country that has no middle class, only the elite and the poor.

I don’t want to live in a country that trods on personal freedom with fascist-style boots.

I don’t want to live in a country where news is entertainment and no one is ever to be believed.

I don’t want to live in a country where the majority of the people thought electing Bush was a good idea.

But I want to live in America! – the America that was once a symbol of good and decent people who cared about the world but didn’t impose their military might unless absolutely necessary.

The America that promised freedom of religion including freedom from religion; the country that led other nations in concerns over the health of our planet, the health of our citizens and our neighbors.

I’m beginning to think that America packed up and moved north to Canada as that might be one of the few nations that seems to honor personal freedom; take care of their sick and their elderly and grant the same rights to same sex people including the fundamental right to marry the person you love.

I want my America back, dammit, but I have a feeling it is going to continue to hide in Canada until we all demand it back.