Wet Bank Guide

Ewwww. Yeah, I know I should change the headline (and possibly apologize to Suspect Device) but if I don't find someway to laugh at this, the anger will consume me. As I've said, I think the only way I can live postdeluvian is to be in NOLA and find something direct and constructive to do. Sitting here in limbo in the Far North will just kill me.

I really don't need to add anything else to Suspect Device's rant on Bay Buchanan's heartless suggestion that America is tired of hearing about Katrina, a pronouncement she made on CNN's Situation Room this week. Suspect Device has done a job everyone who cares about New Orleans should be proud of.

Bay, I'm tired of your America, of the America people like you and your brother have built. It increasingly bears no resemblance to the nation I was raised in, the one I was taught to believe in. The nation that saved itself from the Great Depression and saved the world from European Fascism, the nation that built the interstate system and sent men to the moon, it is gone. Now we are a nation that can't save its own people, even as we empty the treasury into the sinkhole of Iraq. It has become an alien place where the old joke that your brother's speeches sounded better in the original German is no longer quite so funny.

I hope it works out for y'all. I'm going home to the only country that matters to me: New Orleans, Louisiana.

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