Coming back after more than a year and a half, I was surprised to find that most of the current Death Panel threads started well before I left. I guess it's easy for me to delude myself that the state of things is improving, but our economy still sucks, Arizona is still racist, banking reform never happened, we're involved in the same two wars, alternative energy research is still just a bad investment, gays can't marry here or in most states, and healthcare remains 90% broken. Forgive me if I'm retreading old ground, but it was absolutely jarring to realize just how little the world has changed.
I'm going to go cry into my lunch now. (Thad, I understand this is not specifically Obama-related. Please feel free to move it to a more appropriate thread or spin it off into a new one with an insulting title.)