email from my best friend in NYC whose brother's house is under water in New Orleans (these are the guys Blair has allied us to): When something big and confusing happens here, The standard response is to go to the gym rather than the library, for this is a place where the most popular solutions are physical and aggressive. (The ideal response to a really big problem is of course to nuke it.) Since the people left behind to die in New Orleans are being labelled as armed and criminal rather than hungry and thirsty, the governor - with hearty federal support - has declared the problem to be one of law n order and has ordered the troops to shoot and kill. These troops are people who are in fact just back from Baghdad, so they are well used to kicking in doors, pointing guns at civilians and generally considering any population to be hostile, potentially murderous and to be dealt with accordingly. Once again, I'm glad the world is seeing it - Bush World in all its glory. Two things from today's paper (a free one, as I gave up on the main press years ago): 1. a quote from Moronic Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management people who should be in charge of such disasters, interviewed by a journalist on public television after the fiasco - "the American people understand how fascinating and unusual this is, that we're seeing people that we didn't know exist." You just can't invent this stuff. 2. Citing a report in the newsletter Inside EPA (the EPA is the federal Environmental Protection Agency), the New York director of the Sierra Club (environmentalists) said that the EPA was not included in President Bush's Katrina task force. Thank God there's no environmental problems down there. It's beyond parody, and to show you just how divided and delusional people are, respectable surveys reveal thaqt about 80% of Republicans thing bush is doing a good job on Katrina!

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