“If we concentrated on the really important things in life

there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”

Brownwater Jimster sends me this to share with you. As most know, I tread lightly on political subjects because they are, like religion, fraught with chuckholes. However, when someone like Mr. J.P. Long emerges and points out the sky is indeed falling (and he’s right), I feel obligated to second the sentiment.

Here are Mr. Long’s well-reasoned observations on the state of the Union.

a license, but not for being in the country illegally …

you might live in a country run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on

a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get

an abortion …

You might live in a country run by idiots.

If you have…