whoa

man, I feel useless now. I could totally have driven down to NOLA like those three intrepid Duke students, faked a press ID, and begun personally ferrying people out of there. Heck, I've got a five-seater. I could even get tons of bottled water on short notice. What was stopping me?

(Another, better question is: what was stopping all the journalists and cameramen who were going down there from doing the same? Afraid of losing their press credentials? It did boggle my mind, how they could just drive past starving people holding up "Water Please" signs without so much as tossing a bottle of Evian out the window.)

Link courtesy Making Light's illuminating entry.