Unfortunately - it's understated a tad.

Thank Cthulhu for the occasional Molly; the despair is, however - intensified when the stark Reasons for it are set out so well. Note last line of this column

It has been apparent for some time that much of the corporate elite in this country is blinded by greed, not just to long-term interests, but to simple honesty. I think the same thing is starting to happen to our political leaders.
Read more in the Molly Ivins archive.

Of course that "starting to become.." is a generous understatemnt.

Nope, don't see ANY way out of evading what is coming. As you say - when the vast majority of media are as gutless (or outright corrupt) as we see them to be - who's gonna listen / and how!? to the few counter voices: clearly they aren't 'popular opinion' so - how could they be any good?

Sorry your kitty is disappearing; hope you find *something* to start refilling it. I feel that the US is a Lousy place to be, in any hard times as are a-comin. Look at the utter unimaginateness of a Hoover - throughout the last depression. A repo through and through + no-imagination. (No idea if the '03 Brits could match the wonderful solidarity of the Blitz -?- but I'd far rather hang-out in That Country in any rough times - than this one) ..the worse becomes the daily fallout from our institutionalized avian-like insouciance.

(I Can) Imagine! how much more deconstruction can still occur in just the ONE INTERMINABLE.. YEAR we have left, in the hands of this collection of formerly-rejected psychopaths, a sittin around and mutterin for a decade, as they flung pure invented shit at Clinton, every day / a dozen of My Grammas running on Pure Hate.. Imagine.