About New Orleans

Yes, I feel bad for all those people who died, lost family, or just lost their homes. Sure it's a terrible thing. But doesn't it also smack of government incompetence and criminal lack of planning? A city that is always at risk of hurricanes, entirely below sea level, with levees controlled by notoriously fickle pumps, with a large population of poor people, a gigantic petrochemical industry to protect, and otherwise largely dependent on tourism; and this is how they cope?

It makes me grateful for Rudy Giuliani, now that's a natural disaster.

~A