Cry Me a New Year

For a very moving insight into life in New Orleans these days, surf over to Sunday's Times-Picayune for a column by Chris Rose. It's going to be a long time before it's entirely clear what happened (and what didn't happen) there, and even longer until we have a firm idea of the disaster's implications. Thanks to firedoglake for the link (the "hat tip" line gets a bit precious after a while).