Editor’s NOTE: I was privileged to share this commentary on my daily radio program, “Life, Liberty & All That Jazz” on Thursday, November 2, 2010. (JB)

I have been watching the increasing reports of children being killed – horribly murdered and dismembered in many cases, by their parents or care givers (boyfriends). I remember when one report of something like this would have been SHOCKING – today it is just another news item in the paper like a shoplifter being caught.

This is how I see it. Say a miracle happened and the people of this country came out of their slumber and voted all the bums out. Then what? I have noticed that people have VERY short memories. If they voted the bums out they would invariably go back to sleep, apathy would again reign and those who sit behind the scenes and are responsible for corrupting what few honest politicians we may have had, will once again sink their claws into whatever fresh meat we did elect.