I have several tepid attempts at lending some clarifying thought to (gestures manically) this moment. The problem, however, is that anything I have to say feels so incredibly ineffective at stopping this slow-motion trainwreck. Instead of letting a pile of half-completed work make me feel inept, I decided to switch tracks to something more approachable: contributing to an old-fashioned blog carnival. I initially saw Ethan Marcotte and Jon Hicks do their versions and was then reminded about wh...