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I'm watching Meet the Press right now--Tim Russert is slow-roasting Mayor Nagin with teriyaki sauce. I have a soft spot for Nagin because of that awesome radio interview, but Russert is asking questions that need to be asked. As much as I despise Bush's performance during this disaster--and I lay full blame for the levees breaking at his feet, because he diverted those funds toward Homeland Security--there is plenty of blame to go around. That photo of those submerged buses is shocking.

RIP the heroes of 9/11

I watched the Discovery Channel docudrama, The Flight That Fought Back, about Flight 93. Cried and cried and cried. One thing that really got to me was one young woman who called her parents and told them what was happening--her mother said for her to take calm breaths and just look out the window at the beautiful blue sky. Some time passed--they were still on the phone but not talking, just taking deep breaths and both looking at the sky.

Just writing that is making me cry again.