I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine, a New Orleans native and someone that's a good of a person as my mother is, which is saying a lot if you know her. He…

Just heard that they're going to be housing people at the Astrodome. Dome's a dome, right? Seen how bad things are at the Superdome? Dome's a dome, right?

In what are probably its last days, New Orleans has turned into a soggy, lawless hell, and it’s hard to watch.

After talking to a good friend of mine, I realized this post was in misguided taste, and I'm taking it down. Really, the gravity of the situation trumps my attempts at humor, no matter how insightful they may…