Gray Day

There was no sun this morning. I usually wake at 5:30 or 6:00 to begin writing. I like to see the thin sliver of light take over the eastern horizon. It makes the dark part of the morning sky turn a deep, almost loving blue. Burnt pale yellow right at the horizon line. Not so this morning. These heavy rain clouds block out the sun. Sunlight can only travel so far through water, then it dissipates into a weakened, diffuse glimmer before fading out altogether. It is the same with good ideas and people's thinking.

What are the lies they will spin today? We find, through creeping information released, that 9/11 didn't even have to happen. That this corrupt administration was busy looking the other way and worried about its own ideological pursuit of power. It did not protect those thousands of people in the Twin Towers that morning. It did not want to, I suspect. These are evil men. They have no qualms about lying in order to achieve their ends. Worse still, they couch it all in self-righteous terms as if they have somehow cornered a market on moral behavior. If it weren't so terribly bloody and murderous, it would be laughable. What kind of society lets its leaders lie to them and kill in their name for economic ends? What have we become?