Now, it's come to this. And what am I to think? War is not a good thing. What can we do to not have war?

How can I know what is the most important?

I can't devote my whole day to studying it out. Most people in America cannot do this.

BUT!

We have thought of that. This smart for-the-people-by-the-people place I get to live in, we came up with freedom of speech, and then later came up with University systems. We, taxpayers, pay to have people sit around and study important things out so they can get back to us and tell us.

Sometimes, it is in the form of a classroom, this telling us. But when something is so broadly important, I think that these people that I pay to study things should get the information out to more people.

I'm not saying tell me what to think, but laying out the options might be nice.

I feel very let down by the people who are supposed to be our intellectuals.

I think they are not doing their jobs.

Tenure was set up to give professors the security to be daring in their thoughts, to reach farther than others might with safety. I think its a good idea.

But all those people are not putting it out there.

Give me a break! If I can get 4 spams of Michael Moore's stuff, why can't someone whose opinion is vastly more informed give me an email that makes some logical sense?

This was first made clear to me with the "Not is our Name" petition that went around the 'net after September 11.

The statement is one of great weight. I want to resist the bad things they talk about.

But I was not given one shred of evidence of the things they accused the government of doing.

If it is happening, why don't they point to it?

We are only told to "resist."

Oh, wait. We are also told to post little globes everywhere.

I feel betrayed. Many of the people who signed that list are people I admire.

Why haven't they given us a better argument?

Truth shouldn't be difficult to prove. The fact that no evidence is given makes me wonder if it's true.

Tell me I'm wrong.