I have said I am out of touch with America regarding what is expected for disaster relief. Maybe, but the people spreading the meme that the vast majority of who did not evacuate New Orleans did so because they simply chose to ignore the warnings are out of touch with reality. I just heard James …
Archives for September 2005
Rising Gas Prices
As a personal anecdote, gas prices raised 50+ cents here in WV in 8 hours yesterday. Leon at Red State says this is not an isolated event.
Changes In War Crime Trials
The government is changing some of the rules regarding to War Crimes trials: Pentagon officials announced procedural changes Wednesday to the military commissions created by the Bush administration to try terrorism suspects on war crimes charges at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The officials said the changes would not only make the commissions more efficient but also …
The geography of New Orleans
Interesting piece on the realities of the New Orleans situation: New Orleans is utterly dependent for its survival on engineered landscapes and the willful suspension of disbelief that technology has allowed its citizens to sustain. As most people know by now, much of New Orleans lies well below sea level and also beneath the Mississippi …
I Am Out of Touch
It is becoming increasingly clear that I am simply out of touch with the vast majority of the American public. I really am. I just guess I have different expectations for what government can and can’t do, and what government should do. I am sitting here listening to a CNN reporter (Miles O’brien) sitting there …
Stop the Madness
Well, post Hurricane, we see the wingnut battle lines have been drawn. The tragedy in New Orleans, depending on your political ‘beliefs,’ can alternately be blamed on Bush and the War in Iraq or the sodomites and the sinners. On a side note, homosexuals everywhere celebrate for not being singled out for a fucking change.