The Los Angeles Times reports a surge in global terrorism, according to … The US Government. Oh dear.

Ever have one of those decades when everything goes wrong? I remember waking up early on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the TV coming on with its little timer. Then all hell broke lose, and we’ve been devolving into chaos ever since.

Let me just over-generalize a bit: Can anyone out there in the blogosphere think of one thing that we the people — collectively or through the powers of our supposed self-government — have done right, since those few weeks, when we made that great run of consumerism on all manner of American flags? You remember, we had them all over our cars, houses, businesses, lunchpails, t-shirts, undershorts, etc., in September ’01. But since then, has it not been one giant clusterf**k of national failure?

I’m not trying to kill the last vestiges of your nationalistic buzz, if any remain. I’m just saying, when are we going to learn? When are we going to organize and take back our national identity? Does anyone know any Latino high school students? They seem pretty well organized; maybe they can put some feet in the street.