Hello! I keep meaning to write, since I have such longstanding debts of composition still due: I wanted to continue the discussion about accountability and the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, but I also haven't forgotten the comment-designed short story meme I committed to several months ago.
I don't really have anything to offer on either topic, although apparently I missed an essay on New Orleans and the hurricane that Adam Cadre put up on the 17th. It doesn't have much to do with any of the specific arguments we put forth or shot down in my last entry, but it is considerably better-written than anything I slap up here and touches on such notions as the United States having already been a Third World country, the standards for evaluating declarations of that sort, the looter mentality, and Christian fatalism.
I recommend you read it. He also talks about V for Vendetta a little bit, if that interests you.
I don't really have anything to offer on either topic, although apparently I missed an essay on New Orleans and the hurricane that Adam Cadre put up on the 17th. It doesn't have much to do with any of the specific arguments we put forth or shot down in my last entry, but it is considerably better-written than anything I slap up here and touches on such notions as the United States having already been a Third World country, the standards for evaluating declarations of that sort, the looter mentality, and Christian fatalism.
I recommend you read it. He also talks about V for Vendetta a little bit, if that interests you.