We’ve got him for the night, just to see if he fits. He’s big. You can’t really tell from the photo. So far he knows where to use the bathroom and where to eat, but he prefers to spend his time perched up high so he can monitor the ferrets’ every move. When they come close, he hisses. Not sure how that’s going to work out, but so far he hasn’t smacked them around yet.…
A quickie or three: • Kristin got the job at the AP Nashville bureau, which is awesome. She starts Monday. How weird is it that this time a month or two ago, she was interviewing for a reporting job down in Monroe, Louisiana, and had planned to drive down to the Times-Picayune to see about a position there, but came down with some random illness that night that kept her from going further south in…
1. “Reno 911” is pretty frigging hilarious. I’ve never laughed harder than I laughed at the “new boot goofin” skit.2. Adam Carolla’s show is unfunny and embarrassing.3. I would rather have “Daily Show” reruns in that timeslot so I can see it if I missed it the night before, which I always do, because the TV at work is always either on ESPN or CNN or off.4. “The Daily Show” is so much better than…
So in all the stories and reports from Katrina, one story I have paid marginal attention to is that of the people working for the newspapers — the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the Sun Herald in Biloxi. A lot of the staffers of the T-P evacuated with their families for a few days and are beginning to come back to work now that things are getting more settled. But a lot of them stayed…
This evening I heard a CNN dispatch by a female reporter I’m not familiar with (she had blond hair) that was a basic overview of the day’s events. But she told a tale of some men who had covered a body with some sort of sheet or tarp, held down by a frame of bricks. She said they wrote “Here lies Vera: May she rest in peace” on the covering. But a couple of hours…
All week, Michael Chertoff has succeeded in displaying just how slow on the uptake he and his department are, unfortunately. Today’s “Meet the Press” didn’t help his case much. He contends that on Tuesday, he picked up a newspaper and breathed a brief sigh of relief because the headlines told him that New Orleans, while ravaged by the hurricane, had essentially dodged a bullet and that that’s why massive relief efforts weren’t already mobilized to…
CA reporter Aimee Edmondson has a compelling report out of New Orleans about a Tennessee-based rescue team charged with plucking survivors out of flooded homes and nursing homes. I’m proud of these Volunteers (capital ‘V’ intentional). Their job is so enormous I can’t fathom it. I’m also proud of the work the CA reporters and photographers are doing down there. Some snippets: • “They’d found 60 nursing home patients alive on the second floor of…
I keep thinking about the difference between CNN’s musical accompaniment (I don’t know the technical term) and FOX’s. FOX plays this setimental violin-y stuff and CNN’s got this weird industrial trance music going. It sounds like there are people beating on bamboo-plank roofs with two-by-fours while steam fizzes in the background and a tugboat honks outside the warehouse. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like FOX is saying, “Aw, isn’t that sad?” and…
The nightmare begins to dissipate for some, but the gruesome imagery will linger forever. From the AP: “The last bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on Saturday and the convention center was all but cleared, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care. “No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina’s floods and how many…
Rehnquist is dead. Holy crap on a stick. WASHINGTON — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.
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