As the world came crashing down..
There is nothing to say about the events of this week that hasn't already been said. Surely Hurricane Katrina is one of the greatest disasters we have ever faced in this country, but what saddens me even more was the stampede in Iraq that killed narly a thousand, just because it was so preventable.

And yet in our ivory tower, no one is talking about the devastation. How can we? It's the kind of week you really can't think about without crying. We're talking about the classes we're starting, the summers we had, how great the renovations look. And so we go about our lives in hollow awareness, reading without feeling, pushing back the outside horrors as they burn up against our consciousness.

You run out of words in times like these.