Time to Think

  Spring Is Here, But There's No New Start!   #229 By Hank Silverberg Spring has sprung. The tulips are up in my garden, the weather is slowly getting warmer, the matzah is getting stale, and the Easter bunny has hopped away.  This time-of-year usually brings hope that the cold nastiness of winter will fade into a few pleasant months of moderate weather before the heat of summer starts to wilt us again. I had been hoping this spring would also be a new start for America.  But this spring, like last spring, the country remains divided, and American democracy remains under siege.   The Dominion Systems lawsuit is shaking up Fox News to a point where some who still work there might actually return to real journalism instead of partisan propaganda.  The unemployment rate is low, inflation is still a factor but seems to be slowing down a bit and Russia, so far, is losing its war with Ukraine at great cost. (The fact that Ukraine still exists, and NATO has expanded, with the addition of