While our moral hysteria marginalizes and disenfranchises swaths of our society, our moral values leaders are doing their damnedest to leave a choking wasteland for the children to live in. This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky vague warning, friends. The sky isn’t falling; it already has. The Republican controlled Congress, and the barely self-controlled president, are eviscerating decades of environmental laws as we sit in our comfy chairs right now.

I can understand wanting to move the gays to the back of the civil rights bus. It’s not like this is a country that claimed to stand for tolerance and inclusion. Freedom … humbug! We’re cowboys, not interior designers. But the environment, people, is where we live. It’s not just what goes on in the places we can see from the places where we go on vacation. It’s all one web, and anything we let them do in the places on Discovery Channel has real effects right on our block. Besides, if you think you don’t have some sort of ecological disaster going on within a bike ride of your house, you’re confused.

What are we going to do about this? We tried getting a new president and that didn’t work. Any ideas?