"A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517 unaccounted for, while prisoners and their lawyers say many were abandoned in the flooding jails."I listened to this on the Democracy Now! podcast and felt sickened. The former inmate they spoke to ( Read more... )

Call me insane, but I don't think the name "Environmental Protection Agency" was meant to be ironic. And by the way? The White House doesn't want people to know that one of the EPA's own top officials says the environmental damage from Katrina is "a crisis waiting to happen". (He has a history of blowing the whistle when he sees misinformation -- ( Read more... )