rehnquist & roberts have been reduced to the crawl, it seems.

msnbc has a little katrina counter, tallying how many days & hours it has been since the storm hit. i think, at one point, this was useful; one could gauge how long it took help to actually get to the people. now, however, you're in that grey area where you can't be sure when to let it go. for me, this is like when you fall out of contact w/ someone: the longer you wait, the more awkward it'll be when you decide to get back in touch. my neuroses aside, it's like wearing an american flag after 9/11 (i stopped wearing mine when i lost it--or maybe it was looted)--or, better still, like the crawl itself! i don't remember the crawl being a fixture on cable news before 9/11 (though, yeah, it's always been displaying stock quotes on msnbc), but now it seems as if it's always been there.

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