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Archive for September, 2005
‘Great’ photo of New Orleans. Top left, you can see were the levee broke.
Shaky fact: I once drove from Dallas to New Orleans.
Not the appalling movie from 1996, but the new one from this year (or last maybe). Metacritic gives it 69/100, I give it an Achtung Panzer!
I thought it was tremendous. Yes I cringed at a few scenes, and it sometimes felt a little preachy - its main theme is racism, which is blunt to say the least. “You black people”, “rag head”, the woman syaing she wants the locks changed again because the locksmith looks like a gang-banger and will just “sell the keys” etc.
Anyway, gotta get to bed, it’s a complex story that keeps you guessing, and hopefully thinking. There is good and bad in all of us.
Mayhem, apparently, in New Orleans.
So it’s interesting to read this guy, blogging from a tower block there.
Security has become a major concern now, because the NOPD is ineffective and the looters terrorists are roaming the streets. Word is now that they’re lighting buildings on fire, but I can’t confirm that. Anyway, we have to run guard shifts and patrol and it limits our downtime.
It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom. It’s Lord of the Flies. That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It’s that bad.
MacArthur like. Well not quite. Gunther would rather share a sherry with Rommel. Achtung Panzer!
Just too busy at the moment to write anything.
Here’s something though. I hate it when people sign off an email with a slash like this:
/kmb
or
/anthony
Just what the hell is that for?!?!
UPDATE: Just had:
../smurf
In a work email. Good God man.
/sk
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