Today's Stumper

Posted on Nov 6, 2006

One of Megan’s students asked her a question for her government survey: “Do you feel safer now than you did before 9/11?”

I have the hardest time even beginning to answer that question. Is this supposed to be a referendum on Bush’s performance? A meditation on security? An invitation to layman speculation about the potential of a terrorist attack on Richmond, Virginia and/or Houston, Texas?