On the subject of blame

[docwebster]

I 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.

Comments

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I think passing the information and keeping it out there IS very important!

I don't have much cash either, but since I deal in books and Stuff on the internet, I have a lot of Stuff. And happily I found a link to a really good group who is ready, willing and able to act as distributors for same.

http://www.coffeecup.com/hurricane/

You gotta love people who know that books are as important as bandaids!

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Hell, yeah. Besides all the other very literal crap going on down there, I would think they're very likely bored spitless.

[rosefox]

This is right up your alley.

[beanrua.livejournal.com]

You have to realize that blogs are becoming an oddly powerful force for good now.

I have my doubts whether the press would have taken the spin on the coverage that they've taken if it hadn't been for all of the bloggers making a mighty noise about the tremendous gaps in national responsibility that we've seen in the last week.

We never know who our words affect...not really...

The best we can do is to excercise our right to free speech with a good conscience.

[drdemure.livejournal.com]

I'm backing down just a little on my "finger-pointing" stance, because I realize that when I get back from the evacuation shelter I'm going to be doing a LOT of finger-pointing, and I'll want all this for reference then. I'm just trying to stay focused on what is coming up next for me. Keep on. It does need to be done. I just can't do it right now.

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

Doc Webster - forever my hero.