Old George stopped in a little after 11:00, but Pat wasn't up yet. I was making a salad and G. accepted a bowl, which he ate with appreciative comments. Pat then emerged and enjoyed chatting with George while he had breakfast.
Did several loads of wash and other chores. Sat down for an hour to continue Columbine, the kind of book I just love. This is an exhaustive, minute-by-minute depiction of something that, at its core, is almost incomprehensible. How could two middle-class, seemingly completely "normal" boys plan and execute such a slaughter? According to the author, they were not the nerdy, friendless, picked-on, "Goth," types, brooding and solitary throughout their lives, as is commonly assumed. Rather, both had friends (besides each other) and were actually pretty popular. They seemed to have had (so far in the book) warm family lives and little in their backgrounds to "explain" their converging paths. Well, it's a terrific book.
Went to rehearsal last night. The show should be good, although I'm a little concerned that my monologue is so somber, although it again went over well with my fellow thespians (ha!). Well, it will be an experience.
Moreover, not a single news outlet mentioned Bush's five-year-old commitment.
Wider: From Jon Schwartz on "A Tiny Revolution," this reminder: in 2004, on "Sixty Minutes," President Bush assured Jordan's King Abdullah and the world that those responsible for Abu Ghraib would be prosecuted. In 2009, President Obama trots out the tired old "we want to move on" mantra--and there isn't a peep in the ever-compliant media to protest:
"President Bush pledges to Abdullah in front of the world that the wrongdoers will be brought to justice. Almost exactly five years later, when the wrongdoers are known to have included the highest levels of the Bush administration, Abdullah visits the White House again, and no one anywhere in the media remembers it ever happened. Success!"
Jon means the success of the memory hole, down which so many inconvenient past events are neutralized. Lucky us--we don't have to bother our pretty little heads about them.