The Professor’s Notes

It didn’t take long before I saw the (incorrect) drawing of a connection between the Burmese government’s refusal to allow relief to enter Myanmar, and the US response to Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region.  (Note, it was far more than New Orleans.)  I knew it was coming.  In fact, when I heard Laura [...]

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“In separate speeches,
John Kerry and
John Edwards said the administration’s inadequate response to the hurricane revealed a failure of competence and values, while the public outpouring of support for storm victims showed Americans wanted more from their government.”
Interesting. Is it any wonder that a Democrat’s response to the failure of a bureaucracy, and the [...]

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Unfamiliar Tasks For an Organization Used to Disaster - Yahoo! News
Yesterday, I wrote about the way technology has been used by individuals to create a virtual community of “The Diaspora.” Of course, many will recognize this as a decentralized, or distributed, network. There exists no central clearinghouse for information, except for those pockets [...]

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Internet is bulletin board for Katrina victims - Yahoo! News
The horrific stories continue to emanate from Louisiana (mostly new Orleans). Death. Destruction. Murder. Rape. Drownings and dying from dehydration. And on top of all this, we read that rescue efforts have been hampered by the failure of the “high [...]

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Wow… I was all set to learn something useful about FEMA and their response to the crisis in New Orleans, and elsewhere.
Then I read the opening line for January 2001 that includes “a crony from Texas.”
Yup, THIS is going to be one VERY objective piece. Not.
Seriously–people are critical of FEMA, and argue that it [...]

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