« Cotton Picked Up By Feds | Main | Coming soon to The Pulse Blog: Blogging »
October 06, 2005
Peril Gridlock
Michael Kinsley argues, convincingly, that hindsight is not in fact 20/20 after catastrophes:
Of course, my job isn't to predict and prepare for disasters. My job is to recriminate when they occur. It's not easy. These days the recrimination business is overrun like Baton Rouge with amateurs, who are squatting on all the high ground. The fetid aroma of hindsight is everywhere.
But just Google up a phrase like "commission warns," or "urgent steps," or "our children's future" -- or simply "crisis" -- and you may develop a bit of sympathy for the people who stand accused today of ignoring the warnings about anything in particular. Far from being complacent about potential perils, we suffer from peril gridlock.
| By mesh | 02:49 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://chattablogs.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/26365
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Peril Gridlock:
