Archive for August 31st, 2005

• Bush: Enjoying The Moment

  In the wake of the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, Bush decided to fiddle with an acoustic guitar. “Please, people… relax. Let me sing for you. I wrote this one last week, while sitting on my ranch doing nothing.” Image: Yahoo! News

• The Foreseeable Tragedy

  Anyone with half-a-brain (okay, maybe that was too harsh) envisioned the city of New Orleans being flooded at some time. And that time may have been tomorrow. Engineers, with no doubt, proposed time-after-time to increase the capacity of the levees; the cost was too expensive, the city could not afford it, the federal government cut [...]

• Looting, Finding… Same Difference

  Please don’t tell me the difference between finding and looting is race. (Wonkette led me to these photos, and she is right: the Associated Press needs to apologize.) Images: Yahoo! News