text: I really feel like I am in an alternate reality.  I read national news and shake my head and wonder how did it happen. I then read the mostly solid reporting in civil beat about CCH, Police, Rail, etc. and again shake my head. WTF people.  I feel like I am part a very large group of folks, even some in power as well as ordinary citizens, that are standing around and shouting this is outrageous - yet we just wind up milling about in circles being ignored. It is not effective at all, yet it seems all that we can do - cry foul.  And then each day the folks that really do have the baton at the moment do more and more outrageous s#*^, such that the stuff we were shouting about yesterday seems small.  It is truly amazing.  Wish I felt less helpless about all of this.