There is good news and bad news.

The good news is that the country is a month away of electing a black man as president.  Potentially in a landslide.  We desperately needed a return to sanity after the last eight years, and we should be getting it.

The bad news is the economic crash of 2008 unfolding before our eyes.  At this point it looks like it’s going to take years to dig out from it, at a point when there is already so much weakness in this country and around the world.

- P