Last Sunday night I went out for a drink in my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was on edge. My family had been evacuated from the greater New Orleans area. Katrina, at that point a category five hurricane, was scheduled to make landfall Monday morning. It’s Friday evening. The city is simply gone. The federal government didn’t do shit. It’s obvious from Bush’s comments that he has no grasp of the situation. This is amazing. It’s not just the death and destruction caused by nature, it’s the people who paid lip service without lifting a finger... It’s part of the culture down there to have an ax in the attic. That’s for when the flood comes—you can chop your way out. The trick is that most people can’t hack it. How many thousands of bodies are floating in the rafters of their own homes?
Just last week I had bought plane tickets to visit my family for late September.
I have tickets to nowhere.
