Last night I had the privilege of viewing part-time New Orleanian/actor/musician/radio personality and journalist Harry Shearer’s documentary on the real cause of Katrina’s flooding, The Big Uneasy. Everyone knows about the flood and the suffering and destruction it caused, but not much media attention has been focused on the real problem: why our levees actually failed. [...]
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Post-Traumatic
August 25, 2010 – 2:56 pm
Satellite view of “The Big One” Yesterday afternoon I was waiting for an appointment in an office, and a woman who was sitting next to me was complaining to her friend: “I am so sick of hearing about Katrina. All those people who are still trying to get into their houses should have moved back [...]
