Justice
Sometimes Stuff Just Breaks
Would people be reacting the same way to the Super Bowl power outage if it had happened in any other city?
The 34-minute blackout during Sunday night’s Super Bowl XLVII has already, impressively, come to mean many things. By this morning, it had been cited as evidence of why the federal Department of Energy is dumb, why America needs smart grids, why Miami should have gotten a Super Bowl, why New Orleans won’t get another one any time soon, why LED lights can’t save us all, and why the rest of the country still can’t shake images of the dank and crowded Superdome during Katrina.
Further: why New Orleans, in fact, has still not bounced back from Katrina, why Washington should get serious about crumbling infrastructure, and why the NFL shouldn’t crown sentimental Super Bowl hosts in a league of state-of-the-art stadiums.