17 January 2006

Just got an email from our assignment desk that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is making himself available to go on-the-air to "explain the controversial statements he made yesterday." Read them for yourselves here. (These are the ones where he says that "God is mad at America" and that's why He sent all those hurricanes last year.) Jeez, sounds like Pat Robertson.

He says God wants a "chocolate New Orleans" --maintaining the city's black majority-- saying, "You can't have New Orleans no other way." His comments are here.

How much would it suck to be HIS press person right about now.

The good news is a bunch of NOLA universities are starting up today -- including my beloved's Tulane University.