Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

Just when I think the world can get peculiarer.

ita, I think that everything points to the former explaination, but Zach's behavior was so OTT that I wouldn't be surprised if there were more to it than just that.

ita, I didn't realize that one of the bandmates was writing a song about Lane (I was making supper at the same time I was watching,) so I assumed the latter. But even if the latter is true, it's come out of nowhere, except for the fact that Zach is a whiny dink.

Laura, I saw the Brownie news on LJ this morning and thought for sure it was something from The Onion. It took headlines on th NY Times and CNN sites to convince me otherwise.

Meanwhile the editors from The Onion are sitting there moaning, "Life's writing our headlines for us now. How are we supposed to compete?"

More Brownie fun:

Brown said officials need to ''take inventory'' of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

Shows he's a true Bushie - he figures his biggest mistake is appearing to not know what was going on. So all someone in Brownie's position needs to do is avoid letting people know how out of touch they are....

This is the Friday of many annoying little distractions and odd requests.

my friday has been the day of meetings. I just finished my last one of the day.

Any firm that hires him to consult on their preparedness gets what they deserve.

leftover stuffing:

The boys have gone out on the ocean because it is very calm. Gone fishing they have.

It better have been a good kiss: [link]

Oh dear. That sounds like a modern take on a rather grim fairy tale.