George Bush doesn't care about black people.
Kanye WestTags: hurricane-katrina
At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?
Tom PiazzaTags: new-orleans hurricane-katrina rebuild
Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to take decisive action in the face of pervasive problems. In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country's inability to govern itself.
David BrooksTags: united-states hurricane-katrina deepwater-horizon-oil-spill iran-hostage-crisis
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
Dave EggersTags: faith nonfiction hurricane-katrina build
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.
Tariq AliTags: politics united-states new-orleans hurricane-katrina natural-disasters 2005 politics-of-the-united-states 21st-century 2010-in-literature
Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast.
Santosh KalwarTags: hurricane hurricane-katrina hurricane-irene
Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be falling for her. Sure she’s cute, but I can’t think about that.
Jenna-Lynne DuncanTags: romance new-orleans young-adult kidnapping hurricane-katrina
Junior, stop being orner.” It’s what Mama used to say to us when we were little, and I say it to Junior out of habit. Daddy used to say it sometimes, too, until he said it to Randall one day and Randall started giggling, and then Daddy figured out Randall was laughing because it sounded like ‘horny’. About a year ago I figured out what it was supposed to be after coming across its parent on the vocabulary list for my English class with Miss Dedeaux: ‘ornery’. It made me wonder if there were other words Mama mashed like that. They used to pop up in my head sometime when I was doing the stupidest things: ‘tetrified’ when I was sweeping the kitchen and Daddy came in dripping beer and kicking chairs. ‘Belove’ when Manny was curling pleasure from me with his fingers in mid-swim in the pit. ‘Freegid’ when I was laying in bed in November, curled to the wall like I was going to burrow into another cover or I was making room for a body to lay behind me to make me warm.
Jesmyn WardTags: hurricane-katrina salvage-the-bones
People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.
Ian McNultyTags: truth new-orleans cities hurricane-katrina
My voice sounds like I have a cold, all the mucus from my crying lodged in my nose. A train, Mama said. Camille came, and the wind sounded like trains.
Jesmyn WardTags: hurricane-katrina
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