Maybe Not So Much For You With The Talking

Admiring kudos to former First Lady Barbara Bush for pointing out one of the week's less well-covered verities: The people driven from their homes in New Orleans and sheltered in Texas are probably better off. It's simple economics: "So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," Mrs. Bush told reporters on a walking tour of the Astrodome. "So this is working very well for them." (Hear it for yourself.)

Well, sure, as anybody who's seen TV this week can attest. It's just self-evident that the terrified displaced citizens of Louisiana would rather be living in a cavernous arena, eating MREs and longing desperately for homes to which they most likely can never return, than in the communities where they built lives, raised kids and put down roots... because they're poor, you see. I think anybody who's seen the video of people housed in the gaping, yawning emptiness of the Astrodome, their hollow eyes still registering the shock of what they saw as they ran for their lives, recognizes that it's a pretty sweet deal. I'm just glad somebody had the character to say it out loud, and the moral clarity to characterize the prospect that many of the displaced may stay in Texas as "scary."

In a totally unrelated story, Satan had his slavering minions prepare a chintz-covered four-poster bed and put some pretty little things around. "I can wait," he told reporters.

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[Mr. Irresponsible]

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