Well, this explains everything...

Including why Michael Brown treats human beings like animals. It isn't that he's a racist, he just has no experience with customers who don't neigh. Since he works for a President who doesn't seem ever to have fired anybody, except for disrespecting him personally by telling him the truth, I suppose Mr. Brown will be free to blunder through further natural disasters.

Just to go on being contrary, I have no particular beef with the use of "refugee" to describe Katrina survivors. Racism? Just keep in mind that some of the same people objected to the term "niggardly" as racist. I imagine some of them are also in favour of making English the USA's official language.

I'd back that idea, if only a few more people here actually spoke it.

Back to the point. Long before Dubya was anything but his father's wastrel son, I worked for a most unusual boss. By a long train of circumstances, she had been placed in charge of a small city's signature commercial development by her husband. The husband knew, as those of us who worked for her slowly discovered, that this person literally had the intellect of a second grader. The property's failure was foreordained from that moment, and the husband was avenged on the people who had limited his hand in dealing with this property. I learned then that few organisations are better than the brain of the person in charge. It is that person who sees the right path in difficulties and who gets his or her employees moving in the right direction. Measured by that experience, there is only one resignation that is likely to improve the Federal emergency response effort. We're no more likely to get it that we are to get Michael Brown's.