A Venture Forth

In watching Katrina’s continuing aftermath, I’m reminded of an old joke about an optimist and a pessimist. The two are discussing a catastophe and trying to understand the situation. The pessimist scowls and says: “It can’t get any worse than this.” The optimist, typifying his can-do spirit, replies, “Sure it can!”
I tend [...]

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The situation in New Orleans is both an incredible tragedy and, it appears, a stunning example of poor planning.
Clearly, the priority now should be on keeping people alive and restoring basic services to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
However, at some point in the near future, reasonable people [...]

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