Some clips from New Orleans

[Geoffcin]

that makes my heart heavy...

I was told by a friend that FEMA cut communications lines, but I took the news with some skepticism because my friend is an anti-government conspiracy theorist and I hadn't heard it any where else...until now...shocking.

I had originally thought that the problem was just that FEMA was poorly managed, but it looks for all the world like they actively added to the misery and confusion. I'm a New Yorker born and bred, but to my eyes this is a much worse thing to happen to America than 9-11. The shame of this failure of our goverment will last a generation.