(May 11, 2005) — As I gingerly stepped through the glorious opening created by the automatic sliding doors of one Wherehouse Music, my eyes befell a very pleasant sight: Sideways on DVD. My pace quickened as I went from ginger to yippy-skippy while approaching the delicious green box. Oh look! A sale! “Buy it while it’s hot! $20.99-previously priced $27.99!” HOORAY! But wait. $27.99? Who sells a single-disc DVD for $27.99? That doesn’t even make sense. Ah, but it does. Apparently the American public is now considered foolish enough to see such illogical claims, swallow them and act accordingly by spitting out their money into the hands of the poor, ailing American economy. As if it weren’t enough that the rest of the world has spent the last 250 years making a laughingstock of the U.S., it appears that our own country has now turned against itself and makes daily attacks against naïve civilians. Terrible, terrible. Then again, who’s to say that we don’t deserve it? Just the other day my father presented me with a despicable tidbit: while flipping through the local news channels, he happened upon a woman describing her son’s death while in service as “the best Mother’s Day gift ever.” Patriotism is good, but come on! Who puts a much opposed war before the life of their own flesh and blood? We do, apparently. So we just might be asking for all the tricks that are played on us daily by not only other countries, but our own fellow Americans. People, people. This simply cannot go on. The world is a viciously confused place, and, being the most powerful nation in existence, we shouldn’t be adding to the confusion. Power is power, but the loss of respect is way more important. Sure, we can blow things up and take over other shambled states, but we can’t even have a logical existence in which DVDs are sold for the proper prices. Many would agree that there are few worse things than living a life that doesn’t make sense. Somebody do something, anything, for the sake of logic.