world events

Without a computer, I've been a little light on the news, but today I was up early enough to actually retrieve my New York Times before it was stolen. Natural disasters often yield predictable news; old people die when anything happens, politicians arrange to hand out supplies while photographers are present, Congress argues over funding allocation. However, while there has been much news about squalid conditions at the Superdome, this morning the Times reported that there were nearly as many people in the less-publicized convention center, and that gangs of armed thugs had taken over and were ruling through rape and violence.

No pig heads on sticks yet, but I suppose the lesson is that none of us are immune from Lord of the Flies syndrome. Or that the lesbian separatists were right.