Fay was easily dismissed. She either was never headed in New Orleans’ direction and by the time she did, she was faded Fay. Not so much the case with this Gustav, who has an entire warm and fuel-rich Gulf to cross before he reaches landfall. Monsters are created in that trek. All the tracks point…
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I’m So Selfish
Here I thought I was the victim in the NOAH story. I thought, as a citizen of a New Orleans with (at best) impotent and wasteful city management in a time of recovery that it was me who would suffer from their (at best) incompetence. I thought because it was my federal taxes being (at…
What Bart Said
What Bart Said. We should all look to politicians and elected officials as civil servants and virtually at our bidding. However, the job should pay decently. The amount they are getting as a raise I am sure pales in comparison to the amount that is funneled through shady business deals throughout their terms. The conventional…
Myanmar: ‘It Ain’t Me, It Ain’t Me’
U.S. envoy: Myanmar deaths may top 100,000 The very obvious thing to think in light of so many dead is to realize the minimal damage sustained here. But it’s hard to do that even though the numbers speak for themselves. It’s unconscionable to compare victims of disasters yet it is almost the first thing that…