The news is filled with plenty of depressing and bleak stories. The stock market falls, kids get shot and soldiers die every day.

I love this country. I love the ideals it was founded on. And I’m sure you can hear the inevitable “but…” in this introduction because you’re American, and you can read between the lines. So I’m going to level with you right now because there are things that must be said. For the past year I’ve been noticing small problems in our society — inescapable issues that have slowly built up a dam of unease in my brain about the future of our country. I’m talking about the complete lack of integrity or accountability a good percentage of America’s population seems to entertain.

I found numerous problems with the Lariat’s April 20th editorial, “Amazon’s Dirt Cheap E-book Prices Hurt Authors.”