Sorry.

Sorry so many of the great pragmatic sensical logical caring minds of cyberspace have been dismissed or denied roles in the formation of realpolitik, sorry the fraudulent "war on drugs" is still happening, sorry the middle east tinderbox is one spark away from conflagration, sorry the burgeoning "third-world" economic tiger is doomed to eventual implosion, then explosion into a torrential downpour of angry armed souls falling upon north american shorelines like some fetid sociological rain, sorry that we in good health reading this missive are now closer to being drafted into armed forces than at any other time since World War II, sorry so much optimism is being rendered asunder into tattered shreds of scattered hope from unyielding surreptitious affronts upon the body public and our intellectual growth at large, sorry that this world is poised upon a precipice of calamitous upheaval. Sharpen your swords & steel your souls fellow humans, for as the Chinese curse intonates, "interesting times" indeed DO lie ahead for this sorry ass world...