New Orleans

It's amazing how thin the veneer of civilization is. Until this week I would have expected that little short of a nuclear holocaust could have produced the sort of collapse we have seen in the American South. And this was done by the wind?

From the BBC:

"There is rapes going on here," Africa Brumfield, 32, who was staying at the convention centre, told Reuters news agency. "Women cannot go to the bathroom without men. They are raping them and slitting their throats," she said. A National Guard soldier described a similar incident. "We found a young girl raped and killed in the bathroom [at the arena]," he said. "Then the crowd got the man and they beat him to death."

"On Saturday more than 10,000 people were removed from flood-ravaged New Orleans. After spending days without food, water or medicines among rubbish and human waste, survivors appeared numb as they stumbled towards buses and helicopters."

You have to hope for the sake of the American people that when the big chemical/biological terrorist attack comes (and it will) that they no longer have that imbecile in the Whitehouse. Not content with reducing Iraq to a smoking ruin and a state of anarchy, now he's doing the same to his own country. The pictures make it look as though the whole American dream was just that, a dream. And now we have woken up back in Africa. Everyone is black and poor - debris and corpses everywhere, wildmen with guns roam the streets. It looks like Somalia.