Bay Dispatch

I'm on the road again, this time in San Francisco -- and as you can see, your friend and mine Mr. Neal is hold down the Facing South fort, so it's all good.

Since I'm in the Bay Area, spiritual home of DKos, it feels appropriate to point to two excellent recent posts there:

1) Nathan Newman's illuminating account of the long-term war against workers in southern Louisiana, of which Bush's rescinding of the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage act was just the latest installment (thanks to BR for the tip); and,

2) dmsilev's post about a piece in the Chicago Tribune exposing the role of FEMA privatization, cronyism and (of course?) incompetence in keeping buses from evacuating flooded-out New Orleans residents.

R. Neal, back to you. Crossing my fingers for the people of west Louisiana and east Texas ...