IT SHOULD BE RIGHT ABOUT HERE...

Just about now in all the heartwarming or heartlifting movies is where the actual or figurative ray of light breaks through and illumines a scene vastly different from what it had been but a moment before, when all was dark, all was bleak, all was blighted and given up for lost, but now there comes from out of the night the symbolic ray of golden brightness that splits the sky, chasing away the darkness and revealing a scene full of, say, happy-weepy survivors, or the welcoming shore of the long-sought land, or an oasis of cool blue water, or cheers from countless throats at the grand-slam home run that fate has bestowed upon the underdogs in the big game...

So after following the news for so long, and seeing where things have been headed for as long as I can remember, I have to ask: has anybody on the world staff remembered to cue the ray of light?