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Nuanced Looting Redux

I've been amused by the allegations that the press says black people "loot" and white people "find." As far as I can tell, it's almost entirely based on two photos and their captions. Snopes has a pretty good analysis of those two

Get Ready for the Race Card

We're guessing the guests at the Hyatt were white. The guests at the Superdome were predominately black. > At one point Friday, the evacuation [from the Superdome] was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to

Tide Has Turned in N.O.

FYI: While watching Fox News, we just heard the first positive accounts out of New Orleans this week. The armed thugs have largely disappeared as National Guard troops roam the area. Supplies are arriving. The Fox News commentator: "The light is coming back on in New Orleans."

Sad Obstinance? Or Otherwise Understandable Skepticism?

From a CNN story last Monday (12:10 a.m.): > Jesse St. Amant, the emergency management chief for Louisiana's southernmost Plaquemines Parish, said nearly 95 percent of the parish's 27,000-plus residents had fled by Sunday afternoon. Those who remained were being told that

Hurricane Exploitation Quotes

Chrenkoff has a great collection. Link [http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/09/hurricane-exploitation-quotes.html]. Sample: > As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi's Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush&

Yes, Sex Change Operations Were Covered

> The state of Minnesota is quietly getting out of the business of paying for three controversial treatments that affect the sex lives or sex organs of low-income patients. > Starting today, the state will no longer cover routine circumcisions, unless "required by religious practice," under its

Why the Shock? . . .

. . . It's not like PP has a conscience. When you're absolutely correct and have all the answers, there's no such thing as a qualm. > Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas has offered to provide free birth control pills at its Houston clinics to

Blurring It Down

WaPo does its best to nuance the sin out of looting. Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102681_pf.html] . Excerpt: > But, as we are also learning from the post-Katrina chaos, what we think of as looting may be more complicated than

Science at the Polls

> Americans are divided over whether humans and other living things evolved over time or have existed in their present form since the beginning of time, according to a new poll. > People on both sides of that argument think students should hear about various theories, however. > Nearly two-

Orbison Crooning on the Volga

Russian women have long been known for their beauty. Edvard Radzinsky at the Wall Street Journal talks about the new wave of pretties that are coming out of Rus. Interesting stuff. And it makes Eric look forward to seeing his parents' vacation pictures. As he types this, they are