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..are up in the gallery. And if I can ever get my digital camera to stop shutting off in the middle of transferring stuff to the computer, I’ll post links to some more movies of Ernie & Zoe playing. (In case you missed it, check out the first Zoe post)
UPDATED: Success! Zoe biting Ernie on his …ahem, stern (15.3MB zipped AVI) Zoe barking at Ernie from the couch (8.8MB zipped AVI) Zoe & Ernie running around like crazy animals (32.6MB zipped AVI)
This plus this says it all. Incompetence and finger-pointing, while your frickin city is still under water. Water that is now killing people, by the way.
That’s what I am. And I yearn on some level to be a sheepdog. The Flight 93 type of American: I don’t hold a sheepdog sort of job, but when reality catches up and I happen to be among the cast for that particular act in the play, I hope that I can become one.
Bill Whittle says what needs to be said, and what has needed to be said for some time: Tribes.
Which are you? Sheep? Sheepdog? Pink? Grey? Do you care? Read this one, then read it again. Then pass the link on. America — and I mean the you-me-individuals of America — need to wake up.
Remarkable: Big Blow in the Big Easy. A quote:
A few years ago, the American Red Cross ranked the prospect of a hurricane’s hitting New Orleans as the country’s deadliest natural disaster threat, with up to 100,000 dead. Still, many Big Easy denizens insist they’ll stay put for the next one. “There’s a reason New Orleans has a drink called the hurricane,” says Jeanne Hurlbert, an LSU sociology professor. “The culture here is ‘we don’t evacuate.’”
I recall reading a piece last summer along these same lines; it’s extraordinary to me that this latest article was written just over five weeks ago. All of the comments by Louisiana officials about being “kicked while down” notwithstanding, it most certainly can’t be said that the flags weren’t raised and the warnings given voice: New Orleans was a city existing on borrowed time.
What’s most extraordinary to me is how the situation there has become a lifesize Rorshach test for the survivors: some people have risen to the occasion, overcome unbelievable obstacles to their survival, pressed on — and are now helping others do the same. And then there are those individuals who see opportunity to give themselves over to license, to indulge impulse, to ignore law and order and take whatever they can, as much as they can. We are witnessing a war in the most literal sense, a war of order versus anarchy — a “Lord of the Flies” writ large, but in this rendition of the story the characters number in the thousands and have guns. If any of you have ever wondered if life would be better without any government, turn on your TVs and watch.
Neal makes a good point: if you’ve ever wondered how the government would respond to a massive terrorist attack in a major city, take a good look.
