I'm having a mini-debate now. The images in New Orleans are so overwhelming that I cannot help but be angry. We can understand third world, but we can't understand why this is happening here. Yes, no one anticipated the breaking of the levees, so that can mean the levees were never intended to break. The funding cuts, which were in the past, do not matter now.

Meanwhile, someone is sour about the fact that the the California State Senate took advantage of the nation's focused attention on New Orleans to pass the equal marriage bill.