How Can You Stand Such Times and Live

Today, reporters are feverishly investigating which presidential candidates tip their waitresses and which do not. Oh. My. God. It's Tipgate. Is that the best that the press corps can do? Osama bin Ladin is still loose---six years after 9/11, American armed forces were ordered into an unnecessary pre-emptive war, the credit markets are groaning under the weight of U.S. debt, 43 million Americans don't have health insurance, an American city drowned when the levees broke, and all we want to know is whether the candidates are poor tippers. How can a poor man stand such times and live?