Scandalamity

Ah, if it wasn't for the good people of Scandal Town, there wouldn't be fuel for the good people of 22 minutes, or Saturday Night Live – and they bring us so much joy. Satire as we know it would never be the same. We’d have to rely on stupid people for cheap laughs, that is, stupid people who don’t govern our world.
The world is in a vortex of immorality and politicians aren't going to come down with a sudden case of integrity anytime soon. Does that mean we should excuse it and, as you have said, take up a shield of ignorance or apathy? NO!
We need to see past what's shoved in our faces by media outlets owned by oil companies and billion dollar corporations – perhaps they have a different agenda in mind than to inform the general public? (just spit-balling). Trust me, I could blow your mind with that tasty lick of capitalism, but I digress.
The Gomery thing is ridiculous, and I too thought that the good people of Canada would dust off the pitch forks and take it to the streets. We’re talking about millions of dollars. But I never thought that the good people of Alberta we be so happy to receive 400 dollars a pop as “duh, we’re sorry we taxed your face off, here’s some hush money”, so my opinion could be slightly skewed. The fact is that the non-political population of Canada is like the morbidly obese man that sits on his couch while the local neighborhood children rob his house, and asks why they won’t just stop. But as long as he gets his cable, cheezies and government handouts, he’ll stay in his niche of ignorant complacency with little motivation to stand. Possibly because he fears his legs might break.
I’ll tell you what’s really sick, the situation with the earthquake victims in Afghanistan. The UN projects that 200,000 people above the freeze line of the mountains could freeze to death with the approach of an unusually harsh winter. 200,000!!! Yet it’s still not enough that 73,000 people died, or that there’s 3,000,000 homeless. That’s not enough for the humanity in us to kick our brains into gear and do something. Look, Katrina was horrible, and I’m not debating that. But it’s when Julia Roberts and George Clooney come out and subjugate the American public into donating their money, that’s when I start to squinch my face in frustration. 1000 people died in Katrina, it covered the news for weeks. 73,000 died in Afghanistan and India! And it’s shoved on the back burner. Unreal.