Sunday, January 7, 2007

Katrina is still fair game

Maybe impeachment is off the table, but it would be pragmatic and appropriate to pursue a probe into the mismanagement of the post-Katrina disaster. It looks like the Democratic-controlled Congress is considering it. I want blood.

Only a couple of weeks ago, i had to walk away from a customer (an upper middle class white woman) at the bookstore because she was insisting that everyone who stayed behind in New Orleans got exactly what they deserved. She wanted a coffee table book of the disaster, but apparently not one with too much human suffering. She just mourned the buildings. I tried to tell her the story of a coworker of mine from the other store, who was stuck on her roof for days with snakes, waded through sewage water and dead bodies, and sexually assaulted... but she was not interested. Monster.

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