Don't you know me, I'm your native son

[cyrano]

Drivingblind posted this link to a column by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. I hope it's wrong. Or at least overstated--maybe these people exaggerated because they were in the middle of the situation and were emotionally excited when they wrote it. Or maybe the situation was horrifically mismanaged from before the start and the governors are more concerned with CYA than with the governed.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006754.html

EDIT: Thanks to IrisMoonlight, here is the original account.
Yeah, I'm sad that 'socialist' seems like such an awful word to TNH, too.

Comments

[tnalpgge.livejournal.com]

I'm not normally a "secret conspiracy" sort of guy, but this :waves hands over keyboard wordlessly:

Words you may consider here:

• Mishegoss - craziness


• Narishkayt - foolishness


• Schmutz - dirt


• Shande - shame


• Tsimmes - fuss


• Tsoris - suffering

Sometimes English just doesn't cut it.

I had a term I used to describe how the phone company would screw up our phone/DSL wiring in my previous residence: malicious negligence. Prejudice? Definitely. But I'll not fly off the handle here about what this president and his administration appear to think of the poor -- I've used up enough of your precious margin-space already.

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

Good words, all, but...the magnitude of this, and the thorough fashion in which it is pursued. That's what stuns me.