First, the Leviathan is finally weilding its many-fanged head. Officials in New Orleans have finally set up mandatory evacuations "basically...at gunpoint." Good! People would be almost forced to persist in this kind of madness if left to their own devices.

Next to report: I applied for two more jobs. This makes me very happy. They're both ( Read more... )

Rehnquist is dead.

I don't know what this means. Normally, a two-fer would send the Bush team to the bank, to cash in two conservatives (one wacko, one generously not-quite-so-wacho). But these aren't normal circumstances. He's already labelled the federal response "unacceptable" which, (I'm not sure but I think) might be his first ( Read more... )

First, the unremitting horror. This is horror-movie-bad. Government ineptitude left these people vulnerable, and now their incomplete plans will leave them to starve, burn, and die by their own savage hands. Please join me in a moment of shame ( Read more... )

Wikipedia has been raising money at an average of eleven thousand dollars a day! This alarms me, for reasons I can't pinpoint...

Also, the folks in New Orleans are getting all Lord of the Flies just as predicted. Sad ( Read more... )