Storm Clouds on the Horizon

YRHT found a story in my local paper featuring Mike Tidwell's lament that

"No truly charismatic grassroots leader has emerged and, when you look at really successful campaigns for social change anywhere in this country throughout our history, it has always involved serious grassroots organizing."

Tidwell also has harsh words for those in charge:

"The same way all those people were abandoned on the I-10 overpass in the days after Katrina, abandoned at the convention center and abandoned at the Superdome, you are all being abandoned on a larger, more permanent scale because this government either doesn't get it or doesn't care."

Sorry I missed this story (red-faced here in Red Stick). Thanks for pointing it out, Oyster.

Staying on topic for once, today's Times features a story and series of graphics about the Gret Stet's embattled coast that's worth a look--along with this article that should put to rest any criticism about rebuilding NOLA. Hell, I doubt there's a place on earth that ISN'T a potential disaster waiting to happen...