It's virtually impossible to say anything at all meaningful right now about the outrage we all must feel over the impossibly hideous scene that's unfolded along the Gulf Coast of the United States of America in the year 2005 (a) that hasn't already been said, or (b) that no matter how true, isn't hopelessly trite in the face of the horrors that are now and will continue to be faced by the survivors -- American citizens who, inconveniently enough and against all odds, survived the water and the filth and the neglect and the hunger and the thirst... people who, apparently much to the chagrin of the largely absent Bush administration, actually had the temerity to require aid and rescue. And rescue is only the beginning of the odyssey they'll be facing...so while we here have the ability to sit quietly and read a newspaper and type a letter and watch the saga unfold on the television, well, it's virtually impossible to not say anything at all.