Why?

Why can we not yet talk about who was to blame in the mess that is the Gulf Coast? What do you mean, it isn't time yet? When will it be time? Will it ever be time?

Why is "Brownie" being paid to help with FEMA's investigation? Since when do we hire those at fault to investigate themselves?

Why is it that the Republicans praise the Democrats and nonpartisan politics when they get their way, but scream and holler and jump up and down and have fits and whine about partisan politics when they don't get their way?

Why are the Republicans yelling about political motives being behind the DeLay indictments when there have been more Dems investigated in TX than Republicans? (Oh wait, perhaps I should see the question above for a clue with this one...)

Why are we still pretending to be surprised about the flooding in New Orleans?

Why are we pretending to be surprised about the forecast that came out today predicting a bad October in terms of tropical storms and hurricanes? Wake up people, if you've actually managed to miss it, we're in for a bad year! Actually, we're in for a bad decade. Be prepared.

Why are we ignoring the fact that all of those displaced people from the Gulf Coast will never come "home" again? They didn't have the means to leave, you're not kidding yourself into thinking they magically found the means to get back, are you? Did you know that there's no plan to bring them back?

Why is the United States of America, the Melting Pot of the world (or to be more hip and current, the "Salad Bowl" of the world), talking about building a fence to keep people out? If the Native Americans had done that back in the day, where would we all be?

Why is the senior legal analyst on CNN so shocked at the fact that the latest Supreme Court nominee is not a judge? Apparently he slept through law school: Nonjudges on the high court are hardly new. He might want to look into the former Chief's background as a start.

Why is the reconstruction work in the Gulf Coast being awarded via no bid contracts to outsiders (Haliburton's doing some of this work? Really?) rather than giving the work to those in the area who currently really need the work? Why aren't we letting the people help themselves in such a basic way?

Why is it that video games get protestors saying that all of that violence will lead to desensitization toward violence in the real world, meanwhile the news keeps showing a tape of a suicide bomber again and again and again and again and... ?

Why don't we ever learn that we cannot, should not, rule the world?

Why is so much of tonight's NewsNight exactly what we saw on tonight's Anderson Cooper 360? Is it always this way? I admit to not usually watching NewsNight (been tuning in lately just for Anderson), but really, what's the point in all the same stories and interviews? If this is the norm, I won't be turning into a regular viewer of NewsNight.

Why did they get rid of the light brown m&ms? It may not be a new issue, but it'll also be there for some of us.