Black & Blue Brown Sounds Off to Friends (on public service, media, America)

My thoughts this memorialized weekend are with victims and their families all over the nation, both new and those of four years ago. But Mike Brown isn't one of them.

Black-and-blue Brown
Disaster point man has been beat up by jobs, friends say

By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News
September 10, 2005
RockyMountainNews.com

WASHINGTON - As criticism of him grew this week, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown sent a candid e-mail to family and friends.

"I don't mind the negative press (well, actually, I do, but I try to ignore it) but it is really wearing out the family," Brown wrote. "No wonder people don't go into public service. This country is devouring itself, the 24-hour news cycle is numbing our ability to think for ourselves."

It is a shame more qualified people don't go into public service. Sadly, that has nothing to do with this man.

[edit on 11-9-2005 by RANT]