Some of what was reported right after Katrina was so racially biased, it became nearly impossible to sort distortions from reality. The “incidentâ€? on the bridge (when evacuees from the city were kept from entering the West Bank) is an excellent example. That event was so incendiary, and people were so completely terrified, that I’ve […]
President Bush has dropped the ball, totally, in New Orleans. What with one thing and another, I’m not even sure he remembers that there were a couple of big storms this hurricane season, but somebody needs to remind him…soon.
Not just because New Orleans is worthwhile (it is), or because it’s the right thing to […]
It looks to me as if maybe (is it possible??) we’re not getting all the information about the levee oversight bill that didn’t make it through the special legislative session last week. There are, of course, many sides to every story, and with legislation, it’s often those little niggling details that get lost in the […]
Yesterday, I drove an hour into Houston to attend Mayor Nagin’s “Town Hall� meeting in Houston. Along with a few hundred other people (this place was hard to find!), I listened to the mayor’s optimistic (and occasionally evasive) pep rally and jeered at the somewhat hostile FEMA official.
However, I took away a slightly different message […]
It’s one thing for a lowly blogger like me to suggest that Bush will only be able to salvage his presidency (and American credibility) by admitting that Iraq was a mistake. I am, after all, merely an opinionated American with one ineffectual vote. It’s another thing altogether when aljazeera.com says the same thing.
He would have […]
In those very scary post-Katrina days, a young man from Algiers’ Fischer Projects grabbed one of the notoriously unused buses from the Algiers bus barn and drove a number of people out of his neighborhood. Ultimately, they ended up in Houston, and much ado was made of Jabar Gibson (the driver), leading to national acclaim […]
Ahhh… home again.
Travel is wonderful (I’ve always loved it), but it’s always nice to return to those familiar little things, like one’s own quirky shower settings, or a bed that gives a full night’s sleep.
Tonight, I’m especially glad to be home – because until we were actually on the plane leaving Boston, I wasn’t certain […]