Archive for Compensation
U.S. Government: Compensate Katrina Victims
The recent news that a federal judge has ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and by extension, the U.S. Government, liable for at least some of the preventable disasters associated with Hurricane Katrina should lead the government to do what it should have done long ago: Provide generous, long-tail assistance to help the residents [...]
America Betrayed
Hurricane Katrina was a bit player in the disaster that befell New Orleans; a Category 1 hurricane (there, although stronger elsewhere), it was able to swamp the city only because of an egregious, decades-long failure on the part of the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure that the levee system protecting New Orleans was sound.
This [...]
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Probably too much was made of the Oof! of Office misadministered by Chief Justice John Roberts to finally-President Barack Obama last week. We might learn something from the Justice’s error, though.
The likely cause of the mistake was identified, and properly pilloried, by the Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker in an op-ed piece that ran [...]
First Post
Here’s the problem with starting a blog: Since most of us who consider doing so are blog readers ourselves, we’re acutely aware that the challenge is daunting. There are more blogs out there than you can shake a cyber-stick at, and reading too many in any sufficiently short period of time leaves the indelible impression [...]