why are we angry?

ny times

I've been reading google news, blogs every hour today, waiting for the next bit of news of rescue and hope for the hurricane survivors. I don't know if it's a good idea to keep doing this, but it really has me in a fervor.

It's like a bomb inside my gut that's ready to explode.

Part of what I feel's like this. davy at Metafilter:

"Even if Bush were winked out of office tomorrow, even if the whole Bush Administration were gone tomorrow ... the problems we're talking about here would not just automagically vanish. It goes deeper than Gee Dubya, it goes deeper than FEMA, it goes deeper than the Republican Party.

"I've said it before and I'll say it again: America is broken. My country is broken. Shot through with rot, riddled by greed, pervaded by racism, and if you hear a comforting word, jump back because the blade is coming. Blame Bush all you want, but it's not only Bush. The problem is the system, which is set up to keep the rich bastards in power, the middle class in dreamland, and everybody else sick, down and beaten ...

and symbioid on Kanye West's honest statement:

"Kanye is right on for saying what he did ... we need to have this dialogue, and the media is talking about it, and the black congressional caucus is talking about it, and it's time we deal with this shit out in the open instead of keeping it our dirty little secret.

"America is a racist, imperialist country ... It is in our psyche from the very beginning and it continues to this day. Wake the fuck up and stop pretending we're all enlightened."