The collapsed bridge is a sad metaphor to the putrid state of disrepair * has left this country in.

[BigBearJohn]

I pray with every ounce of energy left in my body
that it's not too late to turn things around.

[Truthiness Inspector]

1. I was flatulent today

he has let food in from China.

Where will the insanity end?

[swag]

2. It's not a metaphor. It's the reality.

[zonmoy]

3. the disturbing thing is that america now reminds me of the empire

in the later foundation books while Hari Seldon is alive and trying to set up his foundation to preserve what can be saved of civilization. I fear that we are heading the same way.

[BigBearJohn]

4. Well said.

[Flabbergasted]

5. Especially considering some GOP convention is there at that very spot this Fall

I think it will be a somber occasion.

[Bonobo]

6. Not as bad as Ground Zero. It has been 6 years and look...

It is an open and festering wound in our national psyche.

Ooops, I forgot Katrina. That one hurts way worse than the bridge too... Cause it looks like we're not recovering.
We're like an elderly person that has been fir and athletic all their life and then they break their hip and die in 6 months...