Making Much Ado (about anything and everything)

 MUCH FUSS has been lately made of the fact that it costs, approximately, seventy to eight dollars per month to outfit an incontinent butt with disposable diapers, and that many a young single or otherwise mother cannot afford to so outfit infant, or must choose between food, electric or water bill, or diapers of the disposable kind. All true, and sad. Food bank-like diaper banks are springing forth, a worthy undertaking. Lost in te uproar is that there was once a time, fifty years ago, when disposable diapers did not exist, and civilization managed to get along rather well, just as it did without cell phones or exercycles without computer screens. Also, disposable diapers are an environmental disaster, filling landfills. Perhaps we are making much of a problem which is less of a problem than we might imagine. When confronted with a choice of necessity between food, water, electricity, or diapers, choose all the former, and in a pinch use cloth diapers, reusable, washable, the old fashioned way.. Having done that, we can turn our attention to the actual underlying problem; grotesque economic inequality in America, and lack of support for children. Consider donating cloth reusable diapers, and food, which is always in short supply in our grotesque, inefficient economy..Much is currently being made about the sixty five year old Asian-american lady who was brutally assaulted by a thirty eight year old African-american man in broad daylight, with people watching.The criminal knocked her down, kicked her in the head, and remarked that she "didn't belong here", and nobody intervened. the bystanders are now being suspended from their jobs for not performing like good Samaritan heroes and doing something about it. But the hate criminal was a really big dude, and anyone willing to accost a little old lady on the street might well be equally willing to pull out a semi automatic and blow away anyone trying to help. A surveillance camera, of the sort which are ubiquitous, caught him on video, the police apprehended him shortly thereafter. No heroism needed.Perhaps we should al lower our expectations of others a bit, and trust that justice will be served by the folks professionally trained to serve it. Rather than chastise bystanders for being a bit timid about suddenly becoming super heroes, let us resolve together to address the root problem, the same ole same ol American problem, among our originals sins: racism itself. we have many varieties from which to choose: anti black, anti Asian, anti Hispanic, anti native american, your choice. With a moment's thought, one might begin to wonder whether the problem is expensive disposable diapers, and hat crimes perpetrated in the middle of the day without any intervention from civilians, or whether the problem might be the social and moral values of a culture so sick that were it a horse, it would have long since been shot, merely to put it out of its misery.