That's the story of life, isn't it?

Maybe I should not get too upset over bad times. Think of everything we Americans have been confrontd with in the past 100 years. World War I, World War II and Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese war lords, the Great Depression, the assasination of a president, the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, war debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and not least, eight putrid years of George Bush. And we have survived it all. With some pretty good times mixed in. I am still pessimistic about our future. But there is a scant reason for optimism. We always seem to muddle through the worst of times. That's the story of life, isn't it? --Jim Broede