These are Days You'll Remember -- Open Letter to VP Gore 
Dear Vice President Gore,
Fifteen years ago "10,000 Maniacs" blessed the world with their classic, "These are Days". The song began:
These are days you'll remember. Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky...
The song continues, counting the wonders and miracles of life -- of this precious time we have on Earth.
Now, we are struck with yet another group of maniacs promising us days that we'll remember. Only this time, they reside in the White House and in the halls of the punditocracy. And, unfortunately, we'll be remembering these days not for their 'wonder and warmth' but rather for their descent into corruption and chaos.
As you might have noticed, we live in pivotal times. As Americans, we've been hornswaggled into believing that our votes are counted, our wars are just, our science is fuzzy, our leaders are moral, and our media is capable. Now most all of us know better so the bliss of ignorance is lost.
And beneath the veil of Fox-fed infotainment obscurity is a painful truth -- that we have allowed ourselves as a society to be drugged into a fearful state of subordinate acceptance. Sometimes I feel our collective brain has deflated to mush. And I'm forced to contemplate the horrors that our children might one day face as a result of our collective cowardice, ignorance and self-righteousness. What did they do to deserve this?
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