Every so often, though, we're stopped dead by a crisis that we recognize at once as the genuine article; we recognize it not by its size (false crisis can be made to look as big as real ones) but because in the course of it, for a measurable, anguished period-sometimes only minutes, sometimes hours, rarely as much as a day-nothing happens.
From Murray Waas, today:
As we await word from the federal grand jury hearing the CIA leak case (and despite all your phone calls and emails, I really don't know... or pretend to know much more than anyone else), I am reminded of these words written in his diary by Leonard Garment, an aide to Richard Nixon on Christmas Day, 1972, when James McCord was indicted for his role in the Watergate break-in.
Garment was in turn quoting Jose Ortega y Gasset: "We do not know what is happening, and that is what happening."
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