Failure of Initiative

That just about sums it up.

Read the Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina and see how everyone fucked up.

My question is this - what next? Fingers have been pointed. Blame has been spread around. But there are still people in New Orleans and other areas in south Louisiana who don't know whether or not they will ever get to go home. Work hasn't even started on the levees, and the state legislature can't even make decisions about the Levee Commissions.

Guess what, folks? Hurricane season officially starts June 1.

Bush Axing Libraries While Pushing For More Research

This is just plain sad.

EPA Set to Close Library Network and Electronic Catalog

Washington, DC — Under President Bush’s proposed budget, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is slated to shut down its network of libraries that serve its own scientists as well as the public, according to internal agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In addition to the libraries, the agency will pull the plug on its electronic catalog which tracks tens of thousands of unique documents and research studies that are available nowhere else.