Chief Justice Rehnquist /UPDATED
This has been updated several times.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died. CNN has a coverage on it right now.
UPDATE 3: It's beginning to show up around the news sites.
He was the traditional conservative that believed in states' rights, not an ideologue. His interference in the 2000 Election definitely violated his own tenet. He was more complicated than any partisan people on both sides credit him for, but he was still a conservative that believed in the limits of government.
It is times like these that I wished Peter Jenning was still alive to give us comfort. He would have made ABC cover the devastations on commercial networks twenty-four hours a day to let people without cable know the horror that has laid waste to a city. Some areas look like Venice, a water city, but sunken, drowned, empty of human life.
UPDATE: via Andrew Sullivan, who speaks with greater urgency, post with less finesse, and more blunt in his anger: the disconnect in information between the government who has claimed to have done everything (or know nothing), and those on the streets complaining about no food and water over the last few days.
UPDATE 2:California State University, seven out of twenty-three campuses have measures to help displaced students. University of California, Riverside, is also opening its doors. These are but the few universities out of hundreds nationwide that are offering helping hands.
UPDATE 4: Wired.com: On Scipionus as an alternative to the frustrating message board that leaves people stuck in combing through names finding their friends, families, loved ones. Zoom in to a specific location to find any info.
UPDATE 5: Confusion at Homeland Security prevents Canada from helping in U.S.
UPDATE 6: What's it like to lose New Orleans: "Now nature has done what the Civil War couldn't do. Nature has done what the labor riots of the 1920's couldn't do. Nature had done what 'modern life' with its relentless pursuit of efficiency couldn't do. It has done what racism couldn't do, and what segregation couldn't do either. Nature has laid the city waste - with a scope that brings to mind the end of Pompeii."
Caveat Lector was right. In the deepest crisis rises some of the most eloquent and emotionally-wrenching essays ever written in the Internet, and in our generation, our time.
UPDATE 7: Inappropriate at such a time, but it's fulfilled. (via RW
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died. CNN has a coverage on it right now.
UPDATE 3: It's beginning to show up around the news sites.
He was the traditional conservative that believed in states' rights, not an ideologue. His interference in the 2000 Election definitely violated his own tenet. He was more complicated than any partisan people on both sides credit him for, but he was still a conservative that believed in the limits of government.
It is times like these that I wished Peter Jenning was still alive to give us comfort. He would have made ABC cover the devastations on commercial networks twenty-four hours a day to let people without cable know the horror that has laid waste to a city. Some areas look like Venice, a water city, but sunken, drowned, empty of human life.
UPDATE: via Andrew Sullivan, who speaks with greater urgency, post with less finesse, and more blunt in his anger: the disconnect in information between the government who has claimed to have done everything (or know nothing), and those on the streets complaining about no food and water over the last few days.
UPDATE 2:California State University, seven out of twenty-three campuses have measures to help displaced students. University of California, Riverside, is also opening its doors. These are but the few universities out of hundreds nationwide that are offering helping hands.
UPDATE 4: Wired.com: On Scipionus as an alternative to the frustrating message board that leaves people stuck in combing through names finding their friends, families, loved ones. Zoom in to a specific location to find any info.
UPDATE 5: Confusion at Homeland Security prevents Canada from helping in U.S.
Canada has not been allowed to fly supplies and personnel to the areas hit by Katrina. So, everything here is grounded.
UPDATE 6: What's it like to lose New Orleans: "Now nature has done what the Civil War couldn't do. Nature has done what the labor riots of the 1920's couldn't do. Nature had done what 'modern life' with its relentless pursuit of efficiency couldn't do. It has done what racism couldn't do, and what segregation couldn't do either. Nature has laid the city waste - with a scope that brings to mind the end of Pompeii."
Caveat Lector was right. In the deepest crisis rises some of the most eloquent and emotionally-wrenching essays ever written in the Internet, and in our generation, our time.
UPDATE 7: Inappropriate at such a time, but it's fulfilled. (via RW
posted by Alan at September 03, 2005
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