What's Going On?

Ours is a nation in desperate need of an etiquette lesson. Where are the manners that our Mom taught us? On a national level, there is now an appalling level of personal attack that I hope does not trickle down to the rest of us. First, Rush Limbaugh says that he hopes that President Obama fails. Of course, an Obama presidency that fails will greatly benefit Mr. Limbaugh, but what about the rest of us? I admit that I did not vote for Mr. Obama, but I don't want him to fail. I want him to succeed and I want the rest of us to succeed too. Then, at the White House Corrospondents Association dinner, comedian Wanda Sykes called Rush Limbaugh the 20th hijacker on September 11, 2001, in an attempt to be funny. So now we find humor in accusing someone of being a hijacker on a day in which 19 hijackers killed 3,000 people? Then, there is the curious case of Carrie Prejean, with enough venom and hypocrisy on all sides to fill a 747.

My bigger concern is what about the rest of us? Most of know this is nothing more than hot air from a bunch of gas bags that don't really deserve our attention. But when these stories consume the news headlines, they are bound to creep into our own lives. How many times were school shootings in the 1990's followed up with another shooting or two? Headlines have a nasty habit of creeping into our own lives. Remember what we all learned as children: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.