New Orleans 09.04.05

Quick Comments:

1) Someone should put the state and local officials of Louisiana & New Orleans under the klieg lights. It seems to me that the volume of their criticism of the Feds response to Katrina (which was admittedly too slow...the bureacracy thing again) is directly proportional to the level of their culpability in not preparing for a disaster in the first place...like evacuating the place among many other preparedness issues!

2) We should question and debate the extent to which New Orleans is re-built. Maybe most of the city should be razed and used as a 'natural' barrier (marshland? levees? et al.) to protect key historic and business districts. Keep residences to a minimum and let people commute in from the other side of Lake Ponchatrain.