Why Memory?

Sometimes I wonder why we have the faculty for remembering the events of our lives.  They take our minds back to times we've lived and lost.  Lost in the sense that they are of the past, and we can never have them back again.  As we live longer, grow older, those memories become more dense, and more precious - and also more poignantly painful that they can yet still...never be held...real-time...by us again.
Pain. Joy. Pain.

And yet Pammie, my Ahava, is such a joy to me.
Perhaps all we can do is to keep trying to jam more joyful present-day events into our memory.
Too sensitive, I suppose - I have to remind myself sometimes, that life is now, in the present.

Interesting.

Lifted from an article in the political-blog "The Political Omnivore" (Terminal Uniqueness: A Liberal Disease?)...

So What Really IS Going On?Here's the answer:

Capitalism. FOX News, Limbaugh, and Beck have discovered a positive feedback loop that makes them rich. Infuriating the base--playing to their feelings of victimhood--enabling a sense of having been cheated--and providing a battery of conspiracy theories to soothingly remove any sense of personal responsibility for their circumstances has proven a huge moneymaker.