How It Ought To Be, Damn It! — Darrell Bain

This book began as a series, with segments included in each issue of my monthly blog, Bainstorming. The Bainstorming blog ran each month for about six years. It appeared on my web site, one segment in each issue. Unfortunately, my years have caught up with me and it got to the point where I could either continue the Bainstorming blog or continue to write fiction but not both-so I compromised by cutting down on the fiction somewhat and writing another issue of Bainstorming every six months or so, rather than every month. Just as a note, Congress could use that little example of what they should be doing: Compromising and getting something useful accomplished. And as another note, every issue of Bainstorming is archived on my web site, , complete with a search engine. If you use the search engine to see if I've written about topics that might interest you, try searching for Love vs. Lust, which just happens to be my favorite piece of all the subjects I wrote about during those six years of monthly issues (and the one I had the most comments on). Or if you're a lazy cuss like me, just go to the November 2005 issue and again to the January 2008 issue. This book is not organized or written as a professional pundit would do it. It's just observations by a citizen, me, and what I've learned over the years from a voracious reading habit and from paying attention to what is going on in our nation and the world. So, where did the title, How It Ought To Be, Damn It! come from? It should be self-explanatory, but just to be certain readers understand what this book is about right from the beginning, it is simply how I believe things in these great, big, huge, wonderful United States of America ought to be-but aren't. I won't mince words, I won't try to be politically correct and I'll do my best to tell it in a way I think a great many of our citizens would like to hear someone say it. Some of the subjects I've written about in my blog, in no particular order, are e