Daily Archives: September 7, 2005

When was this a good idea?

I can understand the desire to use public funds carefully and even cautiously, ensuring that any money distributed is used for the intended purpose (notice I’m not even mentioning Iraq in this). But at what point did this ever seem like a good idea? The House on Wednesday was expected to pass two Katrina-related bills: [...]

Go read

Read this piece from the Salt Lake Tribune, and tell me how the Arabian Horse Association CEO we have in charge of FEMA doesn’t get fired. Choice quotes: As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters – his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week – a [...]

Catching up

A vacation last week left me unexpectedly without internet (and TV) access, so I’m doing a lot of catching up. Not surprisingly the literal and figurative debacle in New Orleans is taking much of my time, and generating much of my anger. It’s unusual for me to agree with Andrew Sullivan, but in this case [...]