More drivel from Columnist Mike Kelly

I'll post a critique of today's edition of The Record of Woodland Park later, but now I want to highlight the inane column from Mike Kelly on the front of the Local section.

Many people at the paper know Kelly has been floundering for years. Haven't the incompetent editors noticed he is unable to muster the requisite outrage of a columnist? Is his topic today -- the breakdown of cellphone and other communications with Haiti after a devastating earthquake -- even worthy of being printed?

Isn't there enough said on this same topic in the Page 1 news story about local Haitians that more than a dozen reporters contributed to?

"But now, suddenly, a small part of our world has gone dead," Kelly writes. Sadly, Kelly went dead long ago.

With images of children sleeping among the dead in Haiti, is this the best Kelly can do? What about writing how the world has ignored Haiti, allowing it to spiral into misery with a corrupt, dysfunctional government and a greedy ruling class? Why not question why aid wasn't rushed there from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba -- only a few hundred miles away -- rather than from Virginia and California?

Of course, this is a much bigger natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but did it occur to Kelly to write about how the U.S. response was far more immediate for Haitians than for the residents of New Orleans?