I suck so bad... I had a whole page written in here and accidentally closed the window... and here's the worst thing: it was a completely "normal" post. It was all about a conversation Billy and I had about MGM releasing a special collector's edition of Wizard of Oz DVD with Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' as an additional audio track... it's not going to happen of course - but it would cut out the "middle-man". For those of you who don't really know what I'm talking about, imdb can explain it:

If you begin the album on the third roar of the MGM lion, there are a striking number of coincidences between events in the movie and musical cues (and lyrics) on the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "Dark Side of the Moon". It is highly improbable that the band had a print of the movie with them at Abbey Road, and few attempt to claim it to have been deliberate, but the coincidences are remarkable nonetheless.

But yeah... it's gone now, so congratulations to me. Now for the part of the post I hadn't quite gotten to yet -- I was reading a few articles earlier in the week about: the coming economic Armageddon... US education... Military spending... and our poverty level... these were mostly separate articles but in a way that all seemed connected... but the part that shocked me the most was the fact that out of the world's top 23 industrialized nations, guess where the US ranks on poverty levels for children... go on... take a guess. Drum roll... the answer is: 22nd. Our poverty level just barely out-leans Mexico's. I couldn't believe it - and I'm not even under the dilution that the US is the greatest nation in the world... and I still didn't see it coming. 22nd out of 23. It's so sad... and obviously, by example of the 21 nations taking better care of their young, just unacceptable.

By the way... why am I the only damn person writing on this blog anymore? I know I'm not exciting enough to entertain the three reads we have left...