From Greener Times Aug 17, 2008.  Cat on a hot tin roof is an exaggeration of this column's state of mind, but it's the right image. After reading the day's "outed truth", I want to get off. What am I supposed to do about the US sending provocoteurs to the Republic of Georgia? About America's biggest union being service workers? About the Forest Service knocking 23% off our protected forest acreage? About the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upholding a 2006 dismissal of a claim against Saudi Arabia for providing material support to al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks? Keep track? Does the cat have a map of that roof?

Willy nilly, Jan Lundberg dropped a hint in last weeks GT: “Loss of commumity cohesion and mutual support is the fatal self-inflicted wound of the dominant culture.”

I take that to mean we don't have any culture. If we had some culture we would know which outed truths are important and which are just wrinkles on an old hat. Sending provocoteurs to a Russian neighbor is criminally stupid, but once you have realized that our government is criminally stupid you can uh-huh and get on with something useful like getting your community to boycott a list of corporations five single spaced pages long.

Don't get me wrong. Vote for Gary, vote for Duff (if...), vote for Howard, Vote for Cynthia, send burlap bags of money to Cindy. But have some cultural perspective, first things first, get that cat a ladder; torque a knob you can feel.