though largely I feel the end result is that there will be a lot less poor black people in New Orleans.

See, now, if there were all the same people, this would be a good thing!

Reading a little more about the nursing home people, it seems more complicated. Also, I'm curious if this idea of holding people responsible for the deaths of those they could have evacuated but didn't implies any kind of liability on anyone's part for, say, the hospitals that weren't evacuated.

Happy Anniversary, LJ!

Congrats, Teppy! Excellent letter.

last night's tv made me happy.

BB6 really has just been wonderful. love it.

GG back on the air and picking up right where it left off made me happy. I actually liked how everyone was written tonight. LOGAN!

RSINXS makes me laugh a lot. I really am ready for Mig to hit bottom and leave.

Bush's disaster chief, Michael Brown

That's funny. I'd always thought Bush was the Disaster-in-Chief.

(Michael's Brown's resignation keeps making me wonder how Rumsfeld is still employed.)

Steph, that was a fabulous letter! Rock on.

Salon hates me, because of one of my Symantec products, and I had to reboot, even though I never got close to a day pass, or Teppy's letter. Does anyone want to TWoP it for me?

Cindy, insent to your profile addy.

Cindy:

When I first read this column, I was sure it was satire. Who would boast of their turquoise swimming pool -- filled with bottles of Pinot Grigio, no less -- in the face of evacuees who died because they couldn't find clean water to drink?

I imagine many of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina would have stayed in New Orleans if they, too, could have had Joshua Clark's frat-house lifestyle. Unfortunately, not everyone was as lucky as Clark and his drinking buddies.

But we should understand his choice, it seems: "This is home. Where else would I go? My family's cottage on Cape Cod would get boring fast." Poor Clark! The idea of being forced to live in the family's summer home!

Clark also seems to think his choice to stay is enviable: "Can you imagine what it's like to have no energy bills, no rent, no cellphone invoices ... and no taxes? We can. And we're doing it like kings."

Kings? No. More like self-indulgent boys playing at "Survivor," while tens of thousands of other residents experienced the real thing.

Stay strong, Joshua. The Pinot Grigio might run out and force you to drink Thunderbird. A nation holds its breath for you, hoping that the wine continues flowing.

[Edit: x-post, of course. At least it has all odd digits, in order.]

Priceless. That's just wonderful, Teppy.

Thanks for that, Nilly.

hee! Teppy's letter got published in Salon!

Ahahahaha!!!!! Who da man? WHO DA MAN???? (I EAT HAM!!!)