Sean Hannity says, every weekday on this station, "All I ask is 3 hours per day."
Fair enough. As for me, all I ask you for is 2 hours a week. Is that too much to hope for? 2 hours a week
to give you a slightly different view of the world? (Okay, maybe it's not so slight.)
As for tonight, we'll of course breathe a sigh of relief that Rita wasn't quite as bad
as we'd feared, though you can't tell that by the poor people who were re-flooded in New Orleans, or those who won't be able
to go home in the Bayou for weeks, if ever. But we'll ask hard questions about what these twin hurricanes have shown
us: That 4 years after 9/11, the Bush Administration has failed us terribly in terms of being prepared to handle a major
terrorist attack. We'll talk about that, and:
-- More than 100,000 people demonstrated against the war in Iraq here
in DC yesterday, filling the Ellipse, surrounding the White House (while the President was away, of course). Today,
the so-called "counter-demonstration" of war supporters could barely manage to gather 500 people on the Mall. Why?
Where's the passion to keep this mistaken occupation going?
-- Time permitting, we'll touch on the case in which a Pennsylvania school system is going to court
to force schools to teach Creationism, or the so-called "Intelligent Design" notion, as opposed to evolution; we'll ask how
the Vatican plans to enforce a new plan to keep gay men out of their seminaries -- though not it's current priests; and just
for fun, we'll ask whether you agree with a plan to end the ban on pit-bulls in Prince George's County.
Join me, won't you?
