You know, I'm on a lot of progressive groups' mailing lists... [View all]

[regnaD kciN]

...and checked in tonight to see what sort of actions were being planned. Demonstrations? Strikes? Calls to flood your congressional representative's phone lines?

Basically, nothing, except for a couple of Internet petitions (you know, the kind everyone ignores) calling for a special prosecutor. But, aside from those two damp squibs…crickets.

Is it just that everyone's too shell-shocked to be able to come up with a rapid-response strategy, or is it an acknowledgment of our apparent powerlessness? Either way, it's anything but reassuring.