In a newspaper editorial for the Guardian on September 13, 2005 Gloria Steinem writes:

It's hard to travel or send words out of the US now. How can any American expect to be welcomed in the rest of the world when we have imposed the narcissistic and disastrous George Bush on it?

What is she talking about? On Tuesday, either the US became a police state overnight and clamped down on the communication and travel infrastructure or the infrastructure was damaged in some fashion that prevented the proper functioning of communication and transportation, perhaps by Katrina and Ophelia.

Now to the best of my knowledge neither of these conditions is true, so the probability that Gloria is living in a world of her own construction or some parellel universe reaches near certainty.