(Fair warning – many of you may not like this entry…)
One of my enduring memories of the Katrina crisis, I think, will be that of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s hysterical media interviews and panicked blame-gaming. (Yes, I’ve seen the caricatures of Governor Blanco as Edith Bunker, but I guess she didn’t get as […]
I know, as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, that New Orleans will be rebuilt. The economists can explain the necessity in terms of the port, and the geologists can bemoan the dangers of the topography, but none of these dry, unemotional positions have any bearing on the issue.
Because New Orleans is vitally important […]
According to this morning’s Houston Chronicle, the death toll from Rita is now 109 – and many of these were the result of the botched evacuation. Heat exhaustion, falling asleep at the wheel, hit by cars, the bus fire….Unbelievable.
Yet less than half of the area evacuated. Whether this is because they saw the futility of […]
I’ve just come back from an agonizing virtual visit to Pearlington, MS, where I spent time, and tears, looking into the faces of people who have lost it all.
Katrina did not discriminate, and as the talented and eloquent owner of this site said,
They were on the bottom before Katrina, but she’s stomped their faces into […]
The resignation of New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass can be viewed from many angles. Defenders will say the endless stress finally got to him. Conspiracists will suspect Compass to be the “fall guy” for his superiors (interesting thought, actually). Detractors will say he embellished and lied to the press. Frankly, I’ve wondered why that […]
I’m really getting tired of this. The Houston Chronicle is running a story (courtesy of the LA Times) with this title:
“Expect another big hit in October, forecasters say“
Who should expect this? From the word “anotherâ€?, the obvious conclusion would seem to be the Gulf Coast. Yet when one actually reads the article, there are […]
Conscientious parents teach personal responsibility for one’s actions as a core value. This is not a demand for perfection, but ownership of an outcome. People make mistakes, but only rarely do they cause global damage. Unfortunately, the hysteria from the Katrina aftermath is one of those rare events.
NOLA’s Times Picayune has made the first attempt […]
It’s hard to know what to make of this story, running on NOLA.com. Is it damage control, or reality? Here are some excerpts:
Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated
The picture that emerged was one of the impoverished, masses of flood victims resorting to utter depravity, randomly attacking each other, as well as the police trying to protect […]