If You Can Stand Reliving a Tragedy

I've been poring over the NOVA and Frontline pages this morning--and watched both programs last night. A couple of things:

1) Mike Brown is still an ass. Looks like he's taken the ensuing weeks--and government salary--to piece together what he considers a reasonable alibi. It's not working, Brownie ("You're not doing a heckuva job.")

2) Both programs did a decent job of chronicling what happened, and when. As for "why," I believe they were deliberately vague...PBS, despite wingnut claims of "liberal bias," rarely steps out on a limb.

3) Just prior to the broadcasts, The Lehrer News Show devoted a segment to recovery efforts. The overall picture is that things are moving at a snail's pace. Actually, that's not really true. Things would have to speed up to move at a snail's pace.

4) Ivor van Heerden made any number of solid points...He's been featured in news broadcasts, etc., quite a bit since the storm. One thing people might not realize is that he's also been harassed quite a bit by Waste Management, Inc., because of his opposition to expansion of the Woodside Landfill in Livingston Parish...proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

4) Via HumidHaney and YRHT, an effort is underway to get Gret Stet bloggers to work in whatever way we can to keep storm recovery on the front burner. Count me in--and let's not forget those folks affected by Hurricane Rita either.

5) PGR has a post up featuring an amazing set of photographs taken along Bayou St. John--the photographer put his pictures up for public view in the areas where they were taken, i.e., you can see for yourself the devastation and inundation. Wow.

6) If there's anything more pathetic than the continued wasting of resources on a fool's errand in Mesopotamia--while the same expenditures HERE would actually be productive, not to mention FAR less deadly for the military--I sure don't know what it is. I''m not religious, but if I was, I'd think the supreme being was sending a message.

Back in a bit.