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Confederacy of Dunces USA

Welcome to the confederacy of dunces usa. This blog is inspired by the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast USA and named after the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by New Orleans native John Kennedy Toole. Certainly the disaster response efforts have been led by the dunces....

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Requiem Part III and IV: More Grief, and Levees

New Orleanians had their possessions or their lives taken away. The evacuees woke up in Texas, Atlanta, Utah, Oklahoma. Why? Because of the massive incompetence, carelessness, and "system in name only" built by the US Corps of Engineers. Because the wetland buffer has been cut into ribbons by the oil companies. Because we are a bunch of dumb asses who vote fools into power to lead us.

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