Yeah, things are fucked up. Now what?

So much has been going on lately---Coulter redefining "fag" (the Rev. Fred Phelps epitaph) as a harmless school yard taunt, Libby Libby Libby is guilty guilty guilty, Walter Reed in scandal, etc.---that it's hard to know where to begin or what to say. Perhaps the hardest thing is not to wind up on the sidelines bemoaning the state of the world while it burns to the ground. How not to get mired in criticism and negativity without balancing the picture with hope and positivity?

I am not sure. Sometimes it seems impossible not to become a dour curmudgeon, screaming "I told you so" to a crowd that gets increasing tired of that kind of attitude. But what is the alternative? At times focusing on the advances in one's own life seems to be the only way to keep from being sucked into the negative vortex. Making the best out of the little things; things which add up to my life, and that's pretty big.

I don't know that I have answers, but I do have a lot of questions. Wringing my hands over the way things have gone in this country is using up a lot of energy, and isn't there some other way to use that energy? I'm just thinking out loud here. any ideas?