Ship of State is listing too far left

As a deep space probe unlocks timeless scientific insight across the galaxies, our pathetic pop-culture freak show crash lands on Pluto revealing an inhospitable, unrecognizable landscape fraught with moral decay and unspeakable social depravity.

We clinically discuss the heinous marketing of baby body parts harvested through the horror of abortion as our president deems it necessary to pardon incarcerated drug-dealing monsters responsible for scores of destroyed human lives. A few years after the wanton slaughter of 14 service members at Fort Hood, five unarmed military recruiters gunned down by another domestic jihadist receive disingenuous lip-service from a feckless administration, overtly hostile to our all-volunteer military's devotion to country.

Doubling down on socialized medicine, redefinition of marriage and facilitation of Iran's methodical pursuit of nuclear weapons, this White House (or Rainbow House) celebrates its "fundamental transformation" of America, while harboring an arrogant contempt for her storied legacy and tradition of freedom.

Hurry 2016, righting the Ship of State at the ballot box armed with powerful disinfectants and industrial strength cleansers. She's been listing terribly left for far too long, well overdue for a critical course correction. All hands on deck; we have lots of work to do.

William G. Parrot

McHenry