it's very easy, day in & day out, to think about how shitty humans are to one another. just check the news in whatever medium you want & there it is: awfulness.

when the whip comes down in some disaster, i want americans surrounding me. just like they did w/that airliner in the hudson today, just like they did during 9-11. i can't speak for any other nationality. look at the picture. those are ferries that rushed to the scene BEFORE emergency vehicles to help in the rescue. who knew if bombs were still on board yet to detonate? as rachel maddow said in her newscast, "people ran towards & not away from the disaster." folks who were on their way home to dinner ended up pulling folks out of a sinking airliner in the hudson river. they could not in their wildest dreams have imagined that that was how they'd end their day.

bless each & every one of them.