New Orleans
Internet comment threads are generally worthless; 15 year olds, basking in anonymity, usually take them offtopic and turn them into flamewars. A major exception to this rule is Slashdot. Slashdot comments are moderated by readers, so the moronic posts are relegated to not being shown. Plus, the average poster is pretty smart.
With those thoughts in mind, here is today's Slashdot thread on New Orleans, "9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?" If you have twenty minutes or so, scroll down and read the posts that interest you, and you will know more about the situation than you would after twenty hours of watching TV reports.
No time? Here are some high points in the thread-- I may not agree with all of them, but they are worth reading: This post describes the geologic predicament of New Orleans. This post argues that it may be time to abandon the City. This post suggests raising the entire City, as was done in Chicago in the 19th Century. There are lots of posts against federal aid for disaster recipients; this post takes them on and argues in favor of such aid. This post blames the Bush administration for the unpreparedness. (This strikes me as likely preposterous, since the levees have been underfunded and sinking for years, but its interesting to see where politics are getting injected). Finally, this post (and some excellent followups) brings the disaster, possibily the most serious natural disaster in the history of the Country, into focus.
With those thoughts in mind, here is today's Slashdot thread on New Orleans, "9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?" If you have twenty minutes or so, scroll down and read the posts that interest you, and you will know more about the situation than you would after twenty hours of watching TV reports.
No time? Here are some high points in the thread-- I may not agree with all of them, but they are worth reading: This post describes the geologic predicament of New Orleans. This post argues that it may be time to abandon the City. This post suggests raising the entire City, as was done in Chicago in the 19th Century. There are lots of posts against federal aid for disaster recipients; this post takes them on and argues in favor of such aid. This post blames the Bush administration for the unpreparedness. (This strikes me as likely preposterous, since the levees have been underfunded and sinking for years, but its interesting to see where politics are getting injected). Finally, this post (and some excellent followups) brings the disaster, possibily the most serious natural disaster in the history of the Country, into focus.
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