Reading

I was just reading some of the Sunday paper summaries of Katrina.

One man pushed a wheelchair with his infirm but alert mother in it. She kept asking for a doctor, a nurse, anyone who could help her.

He had to tell her that he could not help her, and that there was no one who could.

She died in the chair.
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At what point did we lose our ability to choose men of honor and integrity for positions of power? When did glibness surpass rectitude as a desirable trait?

When will it end? And how?

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