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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.

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Hurricane Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday's News. We're a country with a 9 day attention span. All of the aftermath is just finger pointing, shoulda done, & making license plates. "We'll do better next time" . . .right. We're the monkey-king from the jungle book. Look at the Civil Defense program that was implemented during the cold war. The only remnant are the air raid sirens we hear at noon the first Monday of every month. But of course, now we call them "storm warning sirens". They were put in place to warn the populace of an immanent nuclear attack, but are we ready for a firestorm from the sky? We can only hold one thing in our public consciousness at a time. We'll beat this disaster to death until the next distraction, then we'll drop it like leper's hanky. Changing the ebb and flow of the public awareness is difficult & rarely worth the effort. You can't save them . . . but you can save yourself.