by Damozel | This piece by Brad Reed of Sadly, No! is a masterpiece, a classic piece of political satire for the ages: 'A Shorter Version of Our Long National Nightmare.' At Sadly, No!, Reed says:
The damn thing was a literal labor of hate, as I could only do so much research on things like Abu Ghraib and the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina before pounding down a bottle of Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale and calling my friends to bitch about how terrible the last eight years have been.
Don't be fooled by the title; Reed and his colleagues use flippancy as a way of holding a light up to the darkness so the rest of us don't have to feel so afraid of looking at what's there. This account fixes on what we really lost as a people when Colin Powell, whom we admired, fell from grace or Bush promised to rebuild Trent Lott's house while people were drowning in their own houses and elderly patients were dying in a football stadium. It's part of our history as a people.
We should be able to look at it, if only to ask, 'What were they thinking?' and 'What were we thinking?' As for SN, the whole mission of this website is to root out the thinking --- still very much with us --- that enabled this administration. I honor it for that.
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