The Horror! The Horror!
Jean Bowling found the cheapest bottle of red wine in the Whole Foods grocery store here, hoping it would offer a momentary reprieve from the chaos that has become her life … Gone are...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Hoop Dreams
Why hasn’t every able-bodied member of the armed forces in South Mississippi been pressed into service? On Wednesday reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter...
Tough Sell
The White House scrambled Thursday to defend itself against criticism that it has consistently proposed cutting the budget for Army Corps of Engineers water and flood control projects — including several that could have...
Carpe Diem
President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility.
Termite Paradise
There is allure in the city’s rot, and not a few native authors have bridged the short etymological gap between decay and decadence, as if the city’s louche human history was written in the...
Recommended Reading for FEMA Appointees
39 million people worldwide live as refugees or as internally displaced people (IDPs). For most people living in the United States it can be difficult to understand what the lives of displaced people are...
Termites Partying?
The Formosan Termites apparently like moist, hot conditions. Does anybody know if the waterlogged conditions in New Orleans will lead to an explosion in their numbers? Does the fact that their swarming occurs in...
A Bridge Too Far
The Baghdad Al-Aaimmah bridge calamity death toll seems to be hovering between 800 and 900. Slightly less than the 1,426 pilgrims suffocated in a Saudia tunnel during the 1990 Hajj.
Twinkle Twinkle
At night, the stranded shine flashlights that make it easier for Coast Guard crews to spot them … For Skarra, flying at night over the city of New Orleans presents an image as surreal...
Can U Dig It?
Chaos and gunfire hampered efforts to evacuate the Superdome, and, Superintendent P. Edward Compass III of the New Orleans Police Department said, armed thugs have taken control of the secondary makeshift shelter at the...