The underlying cause of US foreign policy
May. 5th, 2007 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyOne of the local teen population intersected her Saturn with a gravel truck the other day, so that her school is now going through the brave routine of grief-counseling and postponing this and that and deciding that the prom will go on in spite of the tragedy because that is what she would have wanted.
And I recall kids dying when I was in high school. Hell, that was back when most cars didn't have seat belts*, and the speed limit on the Interstate was 85 mph.
We didn't do any of that institutional grief stuff. Toughed it out, back in school the next day. Callous and cold-hearted.
And I am much of an age with Shrub and the other Power-Mongers of this great nation. Maybe that's why a few hundred thousand dead don't matter.
*Some of the cars had running boards, even.
And I recall kids dying when I was in high school. Hell, that was back when most cars didn't have seat belts*, and the speed limit on the Interstate was 85 mph.
We didn't do any of that institutional grief stuff. Toughed it out, back in school the next day. Callous and cold-hearted.
And I am much of an age with Shrub and the other Power-Mongers of this great nation. Maybe that's why a few hundred thousand dead don't matter.
*Some of the cars had running boards, even.
