Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died. What is…

And you probably didn’t even know we were gone. This blog uses the Radio UserLand platform. It lives on a notebook computer and publishes to the server. (Other blogs, like WordPress and Movable Type live on the server. There are advantages and…

US Senator Mary Landrieu on Dubya’s staged photo op at the 17th levee on Friday. But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed…

From Sue: Blacks, dogs, and foreigners are left to fend for themselves. Babies die in their parent’s arms from illness and heat exhaustion. Pets are ripped away from weeping hurricane victims by soliders and left to starve. Doctors and nurses,…

From Zeni Jardin at Boing Boing whose reporting on New Orleans has been incisive and quite amazing. An article in the Army Times is referring to American citizens in New Orleans as “the insurgency”. While some fight the insurgency in…

The idea of $100-a-barrel oil, which was scoffed at as recently as two weeks ago, is now not so far-fetched. And its effect would be substantial. Other financial wreckage Will the banks let the mortgages slide for those whose homes…

From the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans? Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot…