Okay, when Newt Gingrich starts making sense, you know shit is messed up.

"I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or ( Read more... )

Mayor to feds: 'Get off your asses

(CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM

Read the transcript here.

In more personal news, we finally heard from Mr. Sus' college roommate, a professor at UNO:

I'm OK. I evacuated New Orleans at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday and spent two nights in Lake Charles, LA. Once the levee broke (relatively close to my house), it was clear that I'd be homeless and displaced for some time, so I'm now at my parents' in north Texas. ( Read more... )

The City of Houston is facing a refugee crisis of immense proportions, and efforts here seem only marginally more organized than in Lousiana ( Read more... )

I am utterly heartbroken by the devastation of New Orleans. Although I have no close family there any more, I have deep roots there, and it is, unreservedly, my favorite city in all the world. My mother's parents came from New Orleans--the Badeauxs originally hailed from Hammond, La., the Formans from New Orleans. My favorite picture of my ( Read more... )