Thinking about the below, the US might be the first rich Third World country.

Our infrastructure is failing, our social programs that make society itself prosper are being dismantled, and we have a higher GINI coefficient than even some of the former standard-bearers of inequality.

We have a lot of wealth, but the average person lives a precarious life where one mistake, one missed paycheck or one arrest could destroy them forever

There aren’t a lot of people starving, but contrary to popular belief in most Third World countries that is also true.

I don’t even like the term “Third World.” I’ve lived in the so-called “Third World” and it’s all just people trying to get along, like anywhere else.

That said, it’s a useful term still.

Yes, I do think the US is the first rich Third World country. Things are only going to get worse from here, too.

The destruction of the US Post Office is working.

It’s not surprising – it was and is a very well-run, very visible government program that demonstrated the effectiveness of government, and thus it had to be annihilated so that the neo-con hijacking of the economy could continue.

Not that the Post Office would not have had to change with changing times. But the only reason the organization is going bankrupt is because Congress decreed that it would.

It also peripherally has to do with the fact that the Post Office was long (and still is, in some areas) the only employer who would hire black folks into good, relatively high-paying jobs.

If you think that has nothing to do with the historical and present-day animosity to the Post Office, you are almost certainly wrong.

Ha, never has one comic encapsulated something about me so well.

I don’t mind being in crowds sometimes, if it’s a festival or something (though this drains my energy very quickly, too). But general crowds? Oh hell no. About anywhere else I’d rather be.