America, C'est les Autres

You know what the biggest problem in America is right now? Other people.

Apparently, if the Internet is to believed, it's other people who are responsible for racism, it's other people who are responsible for the mortgage crisis, it's other people who are responsible for global warming and it's other people who are responsible for the drug problem.

Of course, no one ever admits to being one of those other people. And even if they did, there's no guarantee that they would change. Plus it's very hard to control the actions of other people or at least to control them as well as we can control our own actions.

Yet it sure is nice that we are all agreed on the root cause of all our problems. Especially since it spares us the trouble of having to examine any responsibility we might have for such problems.

Of course, there's always the chance that someday we might actually get around to solving all those problems I just mentioned. But undoubtedly, those other people would just mess things up again...