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wowowow.

by now, coverage of the crisis in New Orleans is completely unavoidable, so i'm sure everybody is aware of how horrible the conditions are and i'm sure everyone who watches the news or reads newspaper editorials is equally outraged by the federal government's utter lack of handling the situation at all. i'm getting most of my news via blogs, as i don't watch television at school, but i'm just shocked by it all, and i feel a little bit guilty since the storm passed us by when it was a category one and opted instead to power-up over the gulf and attack New Orleans.

some light humor to the outrage of it all:


Kanye West lost his composure during a telethon-styled call for help on NBC, and both Mike Myers and Chris Tucker seemed completely taken aback by what he was saying, as did the producers who eventually turned his mic down.
watch the whole segment or just Kanye's outburst (both are streaming WMV)

sadly, each time i watch it, i stifle a good-hearted laugh when he says "George Bush does not care about black people."


The Big Ticket has a fantastic roundup of the editorials regarding the federal governement's massive fucking-up this week. here's my favorite, a quote from CNN's The Situation Room:
"The questions we ask on The Situation Room every afternoon, Wolf, are posted on the website 2 to 3 hours before we go on the air, and people who read the website often begin to respond to the questions before the show actually starts. The question this hour is: How would you rate the response of the federal government to Hurricane Katrina?

I’ve got to tell you something, we got 500-600 letters before the show even went on the air. No one -- no one -- says the federal government is doing a good job in handling one of the most atrocious and embarrassing and far-reaching and calamitous things that has come along in this country in my lifetime. I’m 62, I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco. I remember a lot of things. I have never, ever, seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans."

astounding.

this hurricane is the universe's way of proving to the disbelievers that the Bush White House are bad, bad people and they are most certainly not good for america.
i'm not a heartless political spinner, though. i do realize that this is absolutely horrible and i hope that every resource we've got is used to help all those people. things are deplorable. they're people, families, and they are scared and dying.