The Humbling Awesome Power of God

Every so often, God lets us know Who is really in charge.

This hurricane season is historic, and will be known as the one that destroyed the Gulf Coast as we know it.

First Katrina. That hurricane exposed the grinding, racialized poverty that is the seedy underbelly America tries to hide from the world. It also exposed the hideous contempt of this administration towards the American people in two ways: first, via the stunning lack of competence at the highest levels of one of the basic functions of government, and second via the overwhelming structural debt that they wish to incur in their attempt to build a new city not meant for all its old residents.

Now, Rita menaces one of the economic hearts of our country, the oil coast. We may see economic hardships from all of this, but the silver lining, as high prices prevail at the pump in the long-term, is that they are finally spurring changes in our car culture that have been needed for years. Out of this hit may come the boost to confront our destruction of the environment, America's dependence on foreign oil and the its concomitant control this country's psychotic foreign policy.

God doesn't do things for no reason. It would seem that all the God-speak in our federal government and by the religious right has brought God into the place. If you call on Him, he will answer you.

I hope the right is listening. I hope Bush Co. is listening. I hope we all are.