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Buddha
by Manuela Dunn Mascetti



Raining Acid:
It's Wednesday, and it's been raining ash for the last couple of days. OK, so it's not raining acid, it's raining alkaline. That's just as bad, but not as scary sounding.

The fires in San Diego are more or less under control. Half the county burned, and ~1,000,000 people were evacuated. All the reporting of all the numbers just becomes numbing. Yes, LOTS of stuff burned down, so what. What happened? Through all of the ridiculous statistics that were thrown at us for the last few days, much of it meant much.

Hey news media, would it have killed you to have thrown up some maps? I mean honestly. There was the rare map posted, but it was only up for 2-3 seconds. No exaggeration. When they were up, which was MAYBE once an hour at best, they were only up long enough to get a quick glance. It was utterly ridiculous. I, and everyone else I talked to, spent the entire time wondering what the heck was going on. What was on fire? Where was the fire? Where was it moving to? Who should evacuate? What roads were open, and what roads were closed?

The news media completely and utterly failed us. Why am I surprised?


Cheers,
CET

"Much of the suffering in the world comes from the illusion that we are separate from one another." - Gautama Buddha