I just noticed that WTUL is back up and running! All of the information is at wtul.fm. You’ll need OGG support to play the stream online as it’s currently hosted. If you’re using Mac OS X I recommend using VideoLan Client (download link).
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I was recently approached by someone I know about guest-blogging on VirtuallyShocking.com with posts regarding New Orleans’ recovery from Hurricane Katrina. His first guest post is here. Please see his disclaimers about whose views belong to whom and so on.
I had meant to post with an intro before he posted anything, but I was driving back to Louisiana from St.Louis yesterday, so it didn’t happen. So now you know — noone hacked my blog. He is a welcome guest.
I’ll have more info and posts later, but I haven’t unpacked any of my stuff yet, so it’ll have to wait till then.
[Brock has kindly allowed me to occasionally guest on his blog on the topic of New Orleans post-Katrina. My views, of course, are not Brock’s, as his comments will no doubt indicate from time to time. Kodjo]
The Republican dominated House committee investigating the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina quickly requested and received virtually everything written from the Democratic governor of the state Louisiana. This information was made public on December 2nd.[1]
In contrast, the White House is stonewalling[2] and the House committee has, to date, not pressed the issue. Similarly, little information has been supplied by the Republican governors of Alabama and Mississippi.[3]
The House committee has finally decided to subpoena the Pentagon, who “said it had lost the committee-issued request for memos, e-mail messages and other documents related to the military’s response to the worst natural disaster in U.S. history”.[4] Don’t worry. They run a good war.
[1] Bill Walsh and Laura Maggi, Blanco defends actions in storm, She releases blizzard of papers depicting her decisive, frustrated, Times-Picayune, Saturday, December 03, 2005
[2] David E. Rosenbaum, Fight in House for White House Files on Katrina, New York Times, December 8, 2005
[3] Bill Walsh, Demo wants Bush team subpoenas, He seeks a timeline of post-storm actions, Times-Picayune, Wednesday, December 14, 2005
[4] Bill Walsh, Katrina panel subpoenas Rumsfeld, Pentagon says it lost document request, The Times-Picayune, Thursday, December 14, 2005
[This spiel was originally posted on Catallaxy, where I occasionally appear as the token liberal.]
When it’s all said and done,
It’s real and it’s been fun,
But was it all real fun?–Greenday
It was fun, for the most part. Most labs spend a lot of time together. Not many of them cohabitate for the better part of a semester. It could have been awful, but it was mostly rockin’. Thanks guys, and so long St.Louis. I finally saw the arch today, from afar.
I should probably write a longer post about this later. Off to bed.
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It’s going to be a busy day, but obviously I’m not going to get much done in the way of lab work. Our server’s going down tomorrow, so it’s not going to matter much that I’m driving then anyway.
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