Archives for September 2005

fell on deaf ears in the U.S. Supreme Court. And we have seen no news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry lifted a finger to prevent her from being executed either. Postscript:

look at this video of Frances Newton, who is miscarriage of justice.

Want some rare insight into the Katrina catastrophe? Check out Mike Howell on the looting he saw by middle- and upper-class whites, the evacuation procedures (or lack thereof) and what he terms “the seven betrayals”; and “Overkill,” about the privatized paramilitary deployment. Then have a look at this picture and caption worth a thousand words: […]

World News page of the WashPost web site. It’s the fourth story down on the LAT web site’s International news page. (In the NYT print edition it was slotted on page A6.) — Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

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Remember the lone violinist Samuel Thompson, who WFMT, in Chicago, which may do a story of its own about him. It ought to, we wrote them, because he seemed to us “a really fine person” whose “experience intersects lots of things,” including “classical music, African-American heritage, Katrina” and so on. Well, here’s an untold part […]

Forgive us, lawd, we know not what we do. Fools that we are, we offered an typical faux memo to “Iraq’s Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni leaders” from “An American friend.” Advising them on the impact Katrina is likely to have on Iraq, due to the weakened political capital of our Bullshitter-in-Chief, he tells them who’s […]

We don’t read Tom Friedman much lately, at least not with any expectation of enlightenment. But he surprised us the other day with a couple of things he wrote about the Bullshitter-in-Chief and his bullshit regime in re: Hurricane Katrina: These are people so much better at inflicting pain than feeling it, so much better […]

A friend writes from Portland, Oregon: — Hammond Guthrie EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Oh, about the Katrina rescue operation: Our Bullshitter-in-Chief “blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to ‘find out what went right and what went wrong.’ We can’t imagine a worse idea,” The New York Times said today in an editorial we wish we had written. Since we didn’t write it, […]

Violinist Samuel Thompson, who was caught on camera playing Bach for fellow hurricane survivors in New Orleans last week, had no idea he was being photographed by The (Baton Rouge, La.) Advocate — we posted the photo in Sonata No. 1 in G Minor (listen to a Sonata No. 2 in A Minor (listen to […]

Turns out we weren’t the only ones to note Mike Downey cited it, too. So did “I’m not sure the city can come back,”

The eulogies are coming in: Richard Ford’s reluctant gaze today, Andrei Codrescu’s footnote. James Lee Burke. More than half of his roughly two dozen novels are set in and around New Orleans and the Louisiana bayous. Here, for instance, he takes us on a simple, geographic tour with the St. Charles Avenue streetcar — reputed […]

The most astonishing photos you’re ever likely to see of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina were taken throughout the week by news photographers whose work has been distributed by the Associated Press. Some of them have been published in various dailies, some not. Click the links to see […]

Greg Henderson, a pathologist, was attending an HIV/AIDS medical convention in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit the city. He remained behind after shipping his family to safety in Jackson, Miss. Henderson then managed to send this message to a friend via the Internet. Here it is, slightly edited: I am writing this note on […]

THE BULLSHITTER SPEAKS “Katrina’s dealt the Delta folks A blow that’s mighty darn unhealthy, So I’m calling for further sacrifice: Another tax cut for the wealthy.” —