Day: September 1, 2005

On top of all the shameful and outrageous things we’ve seen this week, comes « this »: ‘House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city. “It doesn’t make sense to me,” Hastert told the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago in editions published...

My friend phoned late last night (Wednesday) — he and his dog got out of New Orleans okay. Here is a list of « FEMA-approved relief organizations » if you are interested in donating to the effort to save the glorious city of New Orleans, which from the looks of things is descending into unimaginable...