Katrina + 4

It was four years ago today that Katrina struck New Orleans. I wish I had something significant to say about that.

The last 8 years have exhausted me with outrage, and while I do not want to relax now and let crimes be swept under the rug, I find our current government’s willingness to do just that highly demoralizing.

The pattern of my lifetime has been this: if your crime is high enough and heinous enough, you will not be held to account but rather rewarded with more power.

To quote Sharon Brogan: Outrage is tiring. Perhaps that’s the plan: exhaust us with lies.

Which Dave Bonta counters with a quote from Martial: Anger suits the rich as a sort of thrift— hatred’s cheaper than the meanest gift.

And I’ll quote one of my favorite Tom Waits lyrics, from “Get Behind the Mule”

Well the rampaging sons of the widow James
Jack the cutter and the pock marked kid
Had to stand naked at the bottom
Of the cross
And tell the good lord what they did
Tell the good lord what they did

Sometimes I wish I believed that to be true.

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