As the summer winds to a close, I look back at the past few months and wonder why the earth still turns. If I’m ever crazy enough to have children of my own, the best advice I can possibly give them is to never look back (or run away as far as possible). Hobbes was right. This life is nasty, cold, brutish, and short.

So far, economic progress is at a standstill. The Dow Jones Industrial average peaked at 11,000 points but quickly dropped to 10,000 and has remained at this disgusting low for quite some time. Unemployment is still drastically high and “Ke$ha”  continues to fascinate me with her terrible music. Come to think of it, she looks (and sounds) like a greasy wench out of London’s Red Light District and the sad part is, American youth listen to her like Gospel readings.

Brooklyn’s Republican Party continues to operate like a retarded mule with an awful limp. The crooked antics of the Party Chairman and his inability to negotiate change in the party spectrum has left the word “Republican” synonymous with “Aging Hypocrite” in Brooklyn. But that will change next year. I hope.

The biggest news of the summer, by far, was the Mosque fiasco which has been blown so far out of proportion that Americans are giving a new definition to the word “racism.” Not only is this house of worship being built four Manhattan blocks away from “Ground Zero” but everyone continuously forgets this little parchment called The Constitution that gives every American the right to practice their religion at their own will. Idiots like Newt Gingrich want to call Ground Zero a “battleground” in the war on terror; how about no because it’s almost a decade after the fact and life has moved on. Kellen Guida recently tweeted “71% of Americans oppose the mosque.” …and? What if 71% of Americans wanted Kellen Guida dead? Is that still justified? No, because our Constitution forces the Federal and State governments to protect certain rights that we, as Americans, have under natural law. Again, how is the earth still turning?

A candidate, Michael Allegretti, running for Congressin my district recently ran a campaign ad that said, “Jobs for Staten Island!” and “He’s a paisan! He’s one of us!” Well, I’m from Brooklyn, and I’m not Italian. In fact, Most of Brooklyn and Staten Island is no longer Italian and a large chunk of Brooklyn is part of your district. This isn’t the 1970′s anymore and 5th Avenue in Brooklyn is teaming with Arabs and other ethnicities. Welcome to 2010. You just lost my vote.

Other than that, I look forward to the next few months to see how they’re going to pan out. Actually, what the hell am I talking about? If these next few months are anything like this summer, I may be forced to throw myself off a bridge and pray I hit a rock. This world is going to hell in a hand basket.