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On the subject of blame
Sep. 6th, 2005 10:33 amI keep hearing people say there should be less blaming and more doing. Well, let's have a reality check (at least in my case). I live in friggin' Missouri, I have no car, I'm so broke I can't even pay attention so airfare is right out, my back is in such bad shape taking garbage down to the curb is an ordeal so if I did go I wouldn't be able to do much of anything, and I go to pieces when I see a sick cat in person, much less anything vaguely on the scale of the misery going on down there so just how effective would I be curled up in a fetal ball on the floor? Besides, I am doing something - I'm helping raise money and give out information this weekend (and likely for several weekends after that) and I'm going to try to set up an information clearing house kind of deal via the station's website.
I also maintain that by helping expose the lies, bullshit, half-assed excuses, frantic buck passing and outright criminal negligence of this "administration"s at best lukewarm response to the relief efforts, I am very much helping the people down there by keeping people informed and hopefully pissed off enough to demand accountability from that gang of idiots. You know as well as I do the human attention span is so phenomenally fleeting it makes a gnat on crystal meth look positively focused, so the more people getting the news and information out there the better. I mean, for God's sake FEMA's director used to be an estate planning lawyer I'm given to understand, and was outright fired from his lost job of running a horse show! How am I supposed to keep my mouth shut about schweinerei like that until later?
So I absolutely maintain I am indeed doing my best, and I'm constantly looking for ways to go even further keeping in mind my physical and financial limitations. If that isn't good enough for you, oh well.
By the same token, I'm also looking for more ways I can use my bully pulpit to help with information and fundraising. Suggestions to that end are most heartily appreciated, and try to keep them (a) anatomically possible, (b) within the realms of physics and (c) of a an order of debauchery low enough that the Marquis DeSade wouldn't say we had Issues.
That's the news, and I am outta here.
I also maintain that by helping expose the lies, bullshit, half-assed excuses, frantic buck passing and outright criminal negligence of this "administration"s at best lukewarm response to the relief efforts, I am very much helping the people down there by keeping people informed and hopefully pissed off enough to demand accountability from that gang of idiots. You know as well as I do the human attention span is so phenomenally fleeting it makes a gnat on crystal meth look positively focused, so the more people getting the news and information out there the better. I mean, for God's sake FEMA's director used to be an estate planning lawyer I'm given to understand, and was outright fired from his lost job of running a horse show! How am I supposed to keep my mouth shut about schweinerei like that until later?
So I absolutely maintain I am indeed doing my best, and I'm constantly looking for ways to go even further keeping in mind my physical and financial limitations. If that isn't good enough for you, oh well.
By the same token, I'm also looking for more ways I can use my bully pulpit to help with information and fundraising. Suggestions to that end are most heartily appreciated, and try to keep them (a) anatomically possible, (b) within the realms of physics and (c) of a an order of debauchery low enough that the Marquis DeSade wouldn't say we had Issues.
That's the news, and I am outta here.
