Why are my skies so cloudy grey?

Perhaps it’s just me, but I am feeling pretty bah-humbug these days. Who knows I may have a low-grade case of the swine flu. Or possibly it could be the recession woes. But whatever it is I’ve got the blues. As the great Ray Charles crooned, when I die there will be no more blues and sorrow left to go round. Okay, so I paraphrased, but you get the picture?

The lack of sunshine in New York City, the war in Iraq, crappy politicians claiming that we the people are not interested in health care because we are more concerned with the economy. Yet when my medical bills eat up my income, or instead of going to the doctor I suffer in pain making it damn near impossible to go to work, therefore leaving me with little money and no job. Sure I’ll believe the claim that there is no correlation between financial stability and good health. [...]