It’s two o’clock in the morning and I can’t sleep. I have some work to get done tomorrow, but in the meantime, the only thing on my mind right now is the fact that in the middle of the day today—or rather, yesterday—someone was nearly shot to death outside my apartment. These things happen, and they’re usually not random. I’m not fearful and I don’t think I should find a new place to live. But it was something that was said on the 11 o’clock news that has me up thinking.

"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.When you're born in America you get a front row seat." -George Carlin A great man passed on into the vast unknown last month. Although I think he had a pretty good idea of what is to come. Carlin had this world figured out like few I have …