Only here, only now...

Maggie says:
Only here, only now, would the following things happen:

1. A powdery white substance found in a dorm room is assumed to be ricin and not cocaine

2. Church politics get more Albuquerque Journal coverage than planning issues

3. A political appointee to work a plum university job never graduated from college himself

4. Private management of U.S. ports are under fire not because they're privately managed, but because of who's managing them (way to catch on waaaaay too late, America!)

5. It'd take the Winter Olympics and a handful of embarrassing athletes - and not our foreign policy record - for the country to realize, finally, how the rest of the world sees us