Monday, 30 July 2007 - 6:20 AM BST

Name: "Dan"
Home Page: http://agnoiologist.livejournal.com

It will take numerous Katrinas before any meaningful discourse on racism and urban poverty happens in the U.S. That the outrage at the government's lack of response wasn't more widespread and sustained is appalling and indicative of how entrenched racism is in the country as a whole.

Although I'm all for increasing the dialogue on global warming, it didn't help the racial issues of New Orleans that meteorologists and Al Gore began to point to Katrina as a prime example of a storm that became a catastrophe thanks to warmer ocean waters.

BTW, in case you're wondering why the amount of commentary tonight, I will sheepishly admit that I haven't read your blog in awhile. Bad Dan!