I’ve been feeling uncharacteristicly blue lately. Maybe it’s the news of religious extremists marching in the streets, damning a teacher for allowing her school kids to name a classroom teddy bear Muhammad, reminding me how religion can so easily be a tool of repression (this also goes for the Christian extremists holding signs up in the Castro District of San Francisco telling gays that God hates them). Maybe it’s the fear that our country is in another slow build-up to war yet again based on shaky intelligence and bluster.