From “Here’s What Gets Me”:

I want him to have been con­sumed with grief and sor­row at the dying that was ongo­ing, and he wasn’t. I want him to have felt like a pro­found fail­ure because an entire seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion of one of America’s great­est cities was suf­fer­ing and was at risk of starv­ing to death, but he didn’t. I want him to have been embar­rassed when the FEMA direc­tor gave up the infor­ma­tion that FEMA knew less about the con­ven­tion cen­ter than CNN, but he wasn’t. I want him not to have smirked his way through the entire expe­ri­ence, and he did.

It’s a shrill essay. But this morn­ing it seems that it suits.

(Via Frogs and Ravens.)