The other day, I reached my fill of watching scenes of people in Louisiana and Mississippi looting and crying and begging for help and even dying. If I could go out and do something to help, it would be different. But sitting here, unable to do more than donate what I can donate, there is a limit to how much pain I can watch.
Today, I have reached my fill of seeing politicans complimenting each other on the splendid relief efforts. Clearly, the relief efforts are not splendid. They are not even close to adequate and I see no evidence that the people taking bows for this minimal help have done very much at all, except maybe to interrupt vacations. Attention, Senator Landrieu: People are dying in the streets of the state you represent. Can you do a little something beyond telling us what a great job state officials did preparing for the storm and how grateful you are to George W. Bush for his strong statements of support?
I have also reached and exceeded my tolerance level with people who think that the greatest tragedy here is that they may soon wind up paying four dollars a gallon for gas…but we can speak of this another time. I have to stop thinking about this for the rest of the day.