To quote the Rev. Wright’s eloquent sermon from Wynton Marsalis’ New Orleans Function:

“When you swallow that dragon dust collectively, you reveal yourself as a chump and a sucker, one of those people P.T. Barnum said was born every minute”

Now we wait in horror to see if our expression of interest in peace is enough to deflect war’s interest in us, and hope that the economy can be grown from the bottom-up, and pray that American jobs can be protected while engaging in an increasingly global economy…