A searing opinion piece from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann that captures the sentiments of many this week regarding the Great American Clusterfuck of Katrina. I suppose that's GACK for short, which in turn sounds like the noise produced when a country chokes on its own government.
[M]ost chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection – or at least amelioration – against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.