How did we get here?

Happy Friday, everyone.  It's cold here in Kentucky, was cold during this week's business travel, too.  Cold in a lot of places, it seems.

Step back from your day-to-day issues and give some thought to the headlines we presently see online, on the evening news, in a newspaper or any relatively current news source.  And just think about this:

"Trump associate indicted on seven counts"

"Officials rejected Kushner for security clearance but were overruled"

"Shooter at large after four killed in Georgia"

"Three-year-old found alive in woods after days missing in North Carolina"

"Trump Administration plans to turn asylum seekers back to Mexico"

"General Mills recalls flour over salmonella concerns"

"Schools closed due to widespread illness"

"Florida secretary of state resigns after photo reportedly shows him in blackface"


Those all were pulled from the website of a major news organization just before I wrote this post.  If you're over forty, would you ever have imagined seeing even half of these types of headlines?  What does it say about our country that these are "normal" circumstances to be reported in a matter of fact way?

One at a time, I'll comment:

The last time an associate of a sitting President was indicted was during the Clinton Administration, and it happened a few times before that, most notably during the Nixon Administration's Watergate scandal.

I don't ever remember there being this much discussion of a security clearance, as elected officials generally choose people who qualify readily for that distinction.

Hardly a week goes by without reports of multiple shootings, whether in public places or otherwise.

Missing kids should be a subject of real concern to officials, as this seems to be a more frequently reported issue.

I don't think I need to comment further about how the Trump Administration has handled immigration issues to date.

Salmonella in flour?  Made by General Mills?  Would never have believed that a few years ago.

While the flu is making its presence felt this year, there are a lot of kids who apparently are not vaccinated by their conspiracy-theory parents, so that seems to be a contributing factor to some of the school-centered illness we hear about.

I don't even know what to say about that last item.

And I long for some good news, but it's awfully hard to publicly identify random acts of kindness and heroism and decency.  But I look for them all the time, and am gratified when I see or even experience them.

So be kind to someone today.  The world needs it.


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