What do you call an event in which participants are screened, surrounded by police, and marched on a fenced-in route, all off-limits to the media?
The Pentagon’s upcoming "Freedom Walk", of course.
That distant bang! you just heard was Irony, thumping its head against a wall in pure envy.
The horror unfolds, worst-case after worst-case. I can’t even feign
the ability to write a coherent summary. So here’s just a list of
stuff I’ve come across while surfing the Lake George region in the last few days.
The Bush administration on those left behind in New Orleans, many of whom had virtually no resources, and couldn’t leave without help: they should have known this was coming.
The Bush administration on their own responsibility for planning the rescue, given command of the most powerful array of resources in human history: we couldn’t possibly have known.
Where the hell is Cheney? Not that he’s competent or ethical or a leader or anybody I want anywhere near New Orleans.
But as AmericaBlog pointed out last night, where the hell is he? Is he still on vacation? Dead? Undead? Gravely ill? His official website, as of 10 am pst Friday morning, still doesn’t even mention Katrina.
