i just discovered, to my surprise, that I have quite a number of draft posts in my files that never made it to the surface. They date back several years. But, interestingly, even as the universe (or mine, anyway) has experienced some techtonic shifts, certain things repeat themselves. Put your minds, dear readers, to the crisis now being faced by the residents of lower Manhattan, Staten Island, and New Jersey [even as Mayor Nanny Bloomberg has outlawed unlicensed Samaritans from giving food to the homeless]. Substitute these recent victims for their southern neighbours in past years, in Georgia or Louisianna. Add snow and freezing temperatures. Rinse and Repeat. Here's a classic from the hit-parade of 2009:
SOUTHEAST FLOODING --
STUFF FLOATING AWAY --
PEOPLE DYING
PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAYS BASKETBALL
PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES LETTERMAN FOR AN HOUR
Kanye West apparently had no comment. He seems to have felt no compulsion to go on TV and display his extraodinary eloquence, as he once did in this memorable testimonial to the usefulness of writers.
This time Kanye was quiet. Chris Rock was strangely silent (unlike back in 2007 when he savaged Bush about Katrina at an Obama campaign event).
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