Anyone hooked on Katrina coverage should visit www.nola.com, which has lots of news coverage, links to the PDF versions of the Times-Picayune, and the best set of photo galleries I've seen yet.

What a bind those people -- and everyone in America -- are in. New Orleans is such an important point of commerce, for oil and agriculture. Something HAS to be there; and a lot of people therefore need to live there. And they need Wal-Marts and restaurants and everything else. But making it how it WAS is just unthinkable right now, and I don't think a hard-headed intention to rebuild everything serves the future very well (particularly those who, in the future, may not be able to evacuate the city when the next big one approaches). I'm sure glad I don't have to make such decisions...