Over at Eject ! Eject ! Eject ! is something I think every American should read
I?m generally an optimist, and it?s been my pleasure to be able to write mostly about the good and the noble things in our lives. But the events in the Gulf ? of Mexico ? have brought to a head a summer and a year that has been getting progressively uglier and more painful to watch.
Who can not see the way the country has changed, not since 9/11, but before that ? since the 2000 election? Who cannot feel the split, the division, that rips like a shredding sail on a broken mast, canvas tearing like the sound of musketry, as the rigging falls to the deck?
This breaks my heart. It just breaks my heart into little pieces. I have said less and less as I see more and more, because deep in my core I still don?t want to believe that some Americans could willfully and consistently do such destructive things out of such petty and base motivations, things which in time will make the horrors of New Orleans look like a flea circus in a small tent, with the much larger carnival raging unseen in the background.
Read the rest. Twice. As of the time I’m writing thing, the post has already generated 485 comments. There really isn’t anything more I can add to what’s said except to say that its one of the more important things I’ve read in a long time.
