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Anderson Cooper has continuously impressed me during the past week with his honesty, probity, and grace. While much of CNN’s coverage has been repetitive (as is the nature of 24 hour cable news), leaving me feeling enraged and disgusted, his has been moving and informative. I just watched a remarkable piece Cooper did with Dr. [...]

Citizens For Responsible Ethics in Washington reports tonight that they’ve: …sent three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Department of State, asking for records and communications regarding the federal government’s preparedness and response to hurricane Katrina. “For government leaders who [...]

To follow up on my open source posting, Boing Boing reports that FEMA’s website, and specifically the assistance registration pages, can only be viewed using Internet Explorer 6.0. FEMA’s website for disaster registration requires: “In order to use this site, you must have JavaScript Enabled and Internet Explorer version 6. Download it from Microsoft or [...]

Suh-weet. Brian Maloney, who proudly claims he was “compared to Rush Limbaugh in Time Magazine,” called me a “lefty moonbat” along with Huffington, Jarvis, and the BBC in regards to Saturday night’s Rehnquist post. Nice. I love the Internets.

For a temporary reprieve from Katrina news, I’ll post an article here that I spotted a few days ago, and unlike emergency management or politics is regarding a subject that I can actually speak with some authority on. ZDNet reported on Thursday that the state of Massachusetts has decided to eliminate their dependence on Microsoft [...]

Glad to see my alma mater offering up some assistance for students and faculty displaced by Katrina. Even more importantly, the University of Pennsylvania is offering three weeks off for any faculty or staff who feel the need to travel to the Gulf Coast and volunteer. Says President Amy Gutmann: “We felt it important to [...]

If you’ve been watching any of the cable news channels in the past few days you’ve undoubtedly seen FEMA director Mike Brown being torn a new one by a variety of anchors. Just go anywhere on the web to see the many examples of his incompetence. Now via Talking Points Memo, comes news from the [...]

Rehnquist is dead. I guess we’ll all play the “what a great man he was” game but this is the guy who was against a woman’s right to choose, gay rights, privacy in the home, protecting rape victims, for executing minors and the mentally retarded, and presided over both impeaching Clinton for a blowjob and [...]

Ok, I thought my anger had temporarily run its course, but the sheer disregard that this president shows for the hundreds of thousands of people currently in harm’s way is truly disgusting. Check what the White House seems to find important today. The RNC, not to be upstaged in callousness by the White House, sent [...]

I don’t really know what to say about Hurricane Katrina and it’s devastating aftermath throughout the Gulf Region. It seems like every day things just get continuously worst. For an informational update I’ll point you towards a long post that Matt is continously updating. Meanwhile, if you haven’t already watched Bush’s “speech” from yesterday, head [...]