this is not happening

Thanks to Scott Mehno -- on Arianna Huffington's site -- for pointing me in the direction of Scott Gold's piece in The Los Angeles Times about the scene at New Orleans' Superdome. A f*cking nightmare.

"One mother said she was given two diapers and told to scrape them off when they got dirty and use them again."

Children being raped. Feces on the walls. Men jumping to their deaths because they have nothing left to live for. Diuretics are a hot commodity because people are trying to avoid adding to the stench of urine that is overtaking them.