a shame." So, we should go ahead now and appoint someone to do that and all shut up until .... when? I have a sneaking suspicion that set in after 9/11, and again after just about every debacle of the Iraq war. It's that "now is not the time" means there will never be a time, or at least that the appropriate time won't come until well after anyone's listening. (Because by then the next "big story" will be on everyone's minds.) Maybe it's me. I'm one of those people who sees any number of news events and immediately thinks of how they relate to a host of other things, often in terms of how some tragic events might be avoided next time. But if seems that now, after every event, there's a grace period when we're not supposed to think. Or if we do, we're supposed to keep quiet about it. In this case, I don't have a problem waiting until the families are notified. Or is it after the funerals? Or a week after the funerals? Or ... when is the arbitrary deadline after which we can talk about what we're not supposed to talk about, so that maybe we won't have any need to talk about what we're not supposed to talk about the next time something like this happens because maybe something like this won't happen if we talk about what we're not supposed to talk about? And will anyone be listening by then? But, now