"When your city is French in origin, and your Mayor and Governor are Democrats, and many of those most affected by this natural disaster are Black, don't expect much help from Bush," observes left of y'all.

The record seems clear: that broken levee allowing Lake Pontchartrain to pour into New Orleans was the result of Bush Administration (and Congressional) decisions to spend the money elsewhere or give it away as tax cuts, in the face of specific warnings about the likely result in the case of a big hurricane. Mark A. R. Kleiman has this and more on Katrina and global warming

"Even the dead are going to have to take care of themselves on this one," a New Orleans native told a reporter. Tristram Shandy wonders: whose bodies rest in Metairie Cemetery, the most prominent of New Orleans cemeteries?

Everything New Orleans right here. The Times-Picayune online