This story is beginning to wind down for me. However, what has happened in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast cannot be forgotten.
I am mortified at the sight of the United States begging other countries for aid. Is this our true place in the world? Heaven help us all.
While I was away from my computer, my friend Ashley Adams sent this IM. He was gone by the time I returned to the keyboard:
Ashley: Geoff, why weren’t FEMA and the other fed agencies better prepared in New Orleans? You were telling me that this was going to be the disaster of the century two days before it hit.
That, of course, is the money question.
This morning’s New Orleans Times-Picayune had a scathing editorial.
Despite the city