Questions for the Ages

1. Will they ever get back home? — Katrina Evacuees Face Hotel Deadline — [About 5000] …Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have been staying in hotels at FEMA’s expense will have to pay their own way beginning Tuesday…
2. Is it conspiracy theory, or institutional analysis? — MTT: But they’re not my MT‘s this time. — Top 10 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ about George W. Bush — Maureen Farrell crams a pant-load of information into the top half of this list.
3. Are they “cuts” or “savings”? — Bush seeks to cut payments to Medicare providers — Medicare and Medicaid have been taking a relentless flailing lately, no?
4. Democracy takes guts. What’s happened to ours? — Haiti calm as polls open for national election — “I think we’re going to have safe elections . . . We’re trained, we’re ready, and I’m not afraid. I know I could die — that’s always the threat here on election day — but democracy is the only way we’re going to get out of the mess we’re in.” —