“When you think that you’ve lost everything,

You find out you can always lose a little more….”
— B. Dylan, “Trying to Get to Heaven”

Looks like America has hit the trifecta of disaster in the past week:
first the storm, then the flood and now the death of rightwing hatchet
man William Rehnquist. Like the destruction in the Delta, Rehnquist’s
long-expected but still-untimely death is a disaster whose malign
effects will reverberate far into the future.
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“Strange things have happened, like never before..”
— World Gone Wrong, trad., arr by Bob Dylan

A roundup of stories and commentary on the Delta disaster:

Smoking guns don’t come much smokier than this:
Budget Cuts Delayed New Orleans Flood Control Work (Reuters)

White Folk Gone Wild!
Aussies Loot to Survive (Sydney Morning Herald)
Really,
they’re just animals, these people. What would Jonah Goldberg and
Michelle Malkin and Peggy Noonan say? These thugs should be shot on
sight.
(Excerpt): Trapped Australian