America, now the land of "wide lawns and narrow minds"

[Phanatic]

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

[Susquehanna Birder]

That is bad news. I watched a report on one of the Sunday Morning news shows that showed the industrial revolution going on in China. The report closed by saying that when the history of the US empire is written, we may go down in history as the country who championed the spread of free trade, democracy, and the importance of globalization, and in the end, we helped globalize all the economies of the world, and forgot to do the same for our own. 

The funny thing they neglected in that story is that a huge portion of that Chinese workforce is producing goods for American companies.

[ATV]

Barf.

[ice grillin you]

is that the set from the truman show?