Newslinks on Katrina and how it relates to people of color, the impoverished and the bush administration.
Gawd help me, but Sheppard Smith gives me hope for America.
I liked watching Mike Myers' reaction to Kayne West. Visible moments of "whoa."
In the interest of keeping C&L up at speed, another site is here. Link is on the right.
Dear god, the Kanye West clip becomes surreal. You have West visibly breaking down with barely-controlled anger and sadness next to Myers, who's just nervously trying to rush through the telepromtered script.
Listen to Mike Brown's voice at the end - I think he was about to cry.
I think that Kieran Healy is right about Brown -- the administration was wrong to offer him the job, but he was even more wrong to take it.
I finally saw the West clip. What is so powerful about it is his utter lack of vanity. It's not one of those moments like Michael Moore or Adrien Brody at the Oscars that seems completely contrived and self-congratulatory. He's genuinely shaken and uncertain.
The scariest thing is that the events of the past two days show pretty much what the first two days of the disaster should have been handled.
Kanye West's music is pretty earnest, too. He's good.
Some friends and I were talking about how the Kanye/Myers clip looks like a bona fide SNL skit.
Kanye West's music is pretty earnest, too. He's good.
Some friends and I were talking about how the Kanye/Myers clip looks like a bona fide SNL skit.