This week's edition of the Deviant SynCast is brought to you by the new Paramount Pictures film, Hijinks, starring Robert Duvall, Shelley Long, and Bette Midler as . . . The Ringmaster!

New Orleans

I don't really have much to say about this catastrophe that others haven't said more effectively. The Guardian had a good piece recently.

"I do think the nation would be responding differently if they were white elderly and white babies actually dying on the street and being covered with newspapers and shrouds and being left there," said David Billings of The People's Institute, a 25-year-old New Orleans-based organization focused on ending racism.

Disgraceful. Impeach Bush!

TimeWaster™

I gotta get me one of these Fartaphone things. (TPCQ: "Dad, I promise you: I will never get tired of this.")

Today I'm listening to: Sisters of Mercy!