After roughly a week of horrific, accounts, updates, and stories about the tragedy in New Orleans, it seems as though most of the precious time was spent talking, and covering. And it seems as though most of the work was done by the people with the least means. Independant paypal accounts have been frozen, due to suspicious, sudden balance-increases and deposits. (They belonged to regular people taking the initiative to collect donations for relief-funds.) The Red Cross has been spearheading the initiative to truly help people, and the efforts of the actual government could almost be described as criminal neglect.

What can we even say to express how shocking - how fucking shocking - this whole thing truly is? What about this? Maybe a short collection of other people saying things. These are just some of the videos and soundclips that have been consuming our thoughts over the last few days.

• Kanye West just comes out and says it. It may not be eloquent, but shit - dude's got a point. Check out the look of sheer terror on Mike Myers' face. "Thanks a lot Kanye. Your career will be fine. Your last album is solid, but the Cat In The Hat fucking sucked!" And even better - watch Chris Tucker just before they cut. "Shit. He's right. Do I care enough to fuck myself?"


• Parish leader Aaron Broussard falls apart on television, and lays the blame pretty squarely. His account makes Walmart - Walmart of all things - look like a fucking saints brigade compared to FEMA. The absolute lack of federal action is astounding

• Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith lose their shit from inside the Superdome where thousands were trapped and essentially being held hostage without resources. Both of them pull no punches and anchor Hannity at the desk gets no chance to soften their blows, or spin their stories. "This is perspective!" says Smith, and Geraldo cries as he explains that he can see the bridge out of the city - which was functional - but they were not allowed to use it. Good lord.

• Finally, after the last evactuation, Barbara Bush just doesn't even try not to sound like a racist, classist, asshole. A little compassion, or even the immitation of compassion may have been appreciated.

In summary: Holy hell. Shit's fucked up.

PS: It's not like we had no idea that this could happen. ("Told you so." - Scientific American)