John Kennedy Toole, in his hilarious novel A Confederacy of Dunces, called Baton Rouge a “vortex of despair.” After listening to NPR’s resident poet Andrei Codrescu,
a Baton Rouge resident, comment on Hurricane Katrina, I think “vortex
of stupidity” is more apt. He laid the disaster entirely at the feet of
“global warming”:
Pay attention global warming deniers! This is the real thing.
For a better take on how shameful the environuts are in trying to exploit this disaster, read James Glassman’s column from yesterday.