Month: September 2005

So far I have resisted ranting about the tragedy in New Orleans. It’s about time I started. Alan Alda’s character on M*A*S*H once described his unit commander as “it’s like being on a burning ship and you...

Crossposted from maneegee.blogspot.com If there’s one thing the Bush Administration is good at doing, it’s playing the victim. Regardless of the fact that the Republican Party controls the White House, Senate and...

Yesterday’s diary was about putting people to work.  Today’s is about how.  The title is the concept, below is the outline. ||Give Them JOBS||Labor Construction/disaster cleanup is dirty, thankless, and...

for an emergency session to pass legislation. ’bout fucking time.

The Storm After the Storm David Brooks puts an historical perspective on race and natural disasters. Hurricanes come in two waves. First comes the rainstorm, and then comes what the historian John Barry calls the “human...