THE GREAT FLOOD

When the people of New Orleans were too stupid to get out of town as a hurricane approached, the hue and cry of the media lasted for weeks. And when we lost the city — and all we lost was a tenement city with a music history, the center of which locals used to mark tourists for rolling (I've been there. That's what it was) — you would have thought we'd lost somewhere that contained social treasures of serious import. And let us not forget that nary a word was mentioned about those who lived north of New Orleans, who did get out of the way of the hurricane and who suffered huge losses nonetheless.

I happened to fly over the Mississippi last week, and if you want to bemoan the loss of something via natural disaster, you're going to be bemoaning the flooding along the Mississippi, because it is going to affect the economy in ways you can't imagine. Food price hikes are just the beginning.

And the media. What flooding? They're to busy canonizing a guy who — ostensibly — comes from the Midwest (or is it the Mideast) and doesn't care.

Good morning to all ... hope you had a good Fourth.

Nuke Iran before someone else does.