Here's a blazer from Kevin Tillman...

...a former soldier in the U.S. Army and brother of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who left football to join the Army and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004. Kevin seems eager for some domestic regime change on November 7. His full essay, After Pat's Birthday, was published on an outside-the-mainstream news site I hadn't heard of, truthdig.com. Kevin's background combines with the incredulous tone of his writing to give his piece significant punch:

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world...

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

Full essay here, on truthdig.com.