about myself isn't that I've stopped doing the next right thing. It's that I've started defining 'the next right thing' exclusively within the borders of the USA.

Another Katrina would outrage me. The first one did outrage me. But the same thing happening in, oh, the Dominican Republic? Not so much.

That's what bothers me. That's what I'm trying to fight within myself.

But, you're right. The energy just isn't there.

And I do have kids, and I also have a lot of personal shit going on (an impending marital separation being the biggie) so my energy is limited by a lot of things.

It's where my 'gut' is telling me to concentrate my (admittedly limited) energy that bothers me.