The crash of Flight 1549 came just when the nation needed it - a
crisis averted, a hero in our midst, nearly two hundred people saved.
Next to the inaguration, it's the brightest spot what's been an
otherwise bleak American horizon of late.
But we're a country that thrives on some sort of scandal - so it's no surprise the heroism of Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger has quickly turned to criticism of the age-old (at least one hundred and fifty-some year-old) standard of evacuating people in case of tragedy: "women and children first."
To
be fair, I'm biased. I am, after all, a woman. I'm also a mother. So
women and children rank pretty high on my list. By all accounts, I
should be rushing to the defense of the mandate Jezebel aptly dubbed
"strangely quaint" and "old fashioned."
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