"Beauty is everywhere," is something I agree with strongly. The rest of this crap is the arrogance of despair. Furthermore, it is the same brand of despair peddled by hundreds or thousands of other "journalists" with no connection to the everyday reality of their audience.<p>"Allowing poverty to continue is now a choice" ... Perhaps it is; but you want to force the choice <i>you</i> made on everybody, without taking precautions against the horrors such social programs have inevitably brought about in the past.<p>Yard goods liberal waffle.