Today is Twelfth Night . . . Epiphany . . . the first day of Mardi Gras (or Carnival, to the purists).
There’s an almost obscene irony in the air today, in this city whose mystique derives from historic juxtapositions of deep miseries and joys.
On Friday, two items illustrate this perfectly.
From MSNBC, commenting on the numbing […]
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Posted in General, New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror, Politics on Sep 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Mayor Clarence “Ray Nagin” took to the stand this week to defend his administration against accusations from all quarters that he has no plan for New Orleans. The bottom line from all quarters is that Ray is still a deer in headlights. Planning to appoint a committee to develop a plan. And […]
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As the body count piles up, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office seems intent on punishing defendants by inaction, rather than by proving its cases in court. Horror stories about untried defendants languishing in jail, and being released after serving more time behind bars than a conviction would have earned are becoming commonplace under […]
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Within days after Katrina, the story began to unfold about the ongoing horror under way inside some of New Orleans' hospitals. Email from the sister of a doctor trapped in one of the hospitals told of the frantic race to get critically ill patients above the flood waters . . . fear of drug-starved looters […]
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Meanwhile, early Saturday, New Orleans awoke to the sound of a gun-battle, an ambush and execution that left five teen-agers dead in a "gruesome" manner that shook veteran police officers.
This quintuple slaughter, the worst single violent episode in possibly several decades, is the latest wave in a murder rate that has soared since April. Before […]
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