Below The Beltway

Via Professor Bainbridge comes this item about the impact of Katrina on the legal profession:
An email reports something I hadn’t even considered; namely, the devastation Katrina will cause to the legal system.
5,000 – 6,000 lawyers (1/3 of the lawyers in Louisiana) have lost their offices, their libraries, their computers with all information thereon, their client [...]

That’s the latest banner headline on CNN as the impact of Katrina continues to widen.

Two stories on CNN.com are cause for serious concern about the short and long term impact of Katrina
First, there’s this story about the possibility of $4 a gallon gas
Consumers can expect retail gas prices to rise to $4 a gallon soon, but whether they stay there depends on the long-term damage to oil facilities from [...]

At least that’s what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says in this article at the Huffington Post (link provided only to prove he actually said something this stupid):
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi?s Gulf Coast, it?s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush?s iron-clad [...]

Fellow LLP’er Left Brian Female asks a tough question — whether we should rebuild New Orleans. My gut reaction is, that, yes, absolutely we should rebuild. Just like we should rebuild on the site of the World Trade Center in New York.
The practical reasons are obvious; if we abandon New Orleans and its suburbs to [...]

Inspired by Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit is organizing a blog burst to promote fundraising to help the people in Lousiana and Mississippi. It will take place tomorrow, September 1st. I have chosen Catholic Charities as my charity of choice, but there are many listed at Instapundit.
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I’ve been struggling to put into words the thoughts running through my head about what has been unfolding in New Orleans over the past two days. While there is alot of good happening and people being rescued, the looting and shooting seems to be worse than its been in past disasters. This didn’t happen in [...]

The latest Carnival of the Vanities is up at Incite.

According to today’s Washington Post, President Bush’s approval ratings is at an all-time low.
Rising gas prices and ongoing bloodshed in Iraq continue to take their toll on President Bush, whose standing with the public has sunk to an all-time low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey found Bush’s job approval rating at [...]

Kamila Pajer has this article at Tech Central Station about something that happened 25 years ago today:
In the summer of 1980, after years of suffering under a regime that wasted their energy and suppressed their wills and minds, thousands of Polish workers in Warsaw, Swidnik, the Silesia region, Poznan, Lodz, Gdynia and many other cities [...]