This decade

So, I was a child of the 80s, and a teenager, college student, and pretending to be a young adult in the 90s. Weren't those decades just great to be an American in? No major wars, no constant fear of terrorism, no Hillary Duff (I kid, but not really). Hell, in the 90s, i even kinda LIKED the president. I suppose I was aware that things were screwed up in other parts of the world, but was relatively unaffected by most of it. Not so today. Now I have to be afraid of everything. If it's not being blown to smithereens by Islamic terrorists, it's spinach. If it's not global warming, it's lead toys. I suppose it's always been this way, and I was just too damn young to care or worry about it. I can't help feeling that something happened at the beginning of the century that made a lot of people very cynical. Oh wait, THERE WAS AN ELECTION. Now I remember! And it all went downhill from there. Let's hope that in 3 years our next decade can bring us back to feeling good about things again.