From my journal of today:
Maybe it's just me, but I find it difficult to summon much righteous indignation against looters in New Orleans while people are still stranded and dying all over the city. This is a catastrophe of monumental proportions and the theft of personal property pales by comparison to the human tragedy. When heads eventually start rolling, I hope prosecutors spend more time worrying about official malfeasance by those who should have done more to prepare for this than they do scouring video tape trying to identify some guy who steals a microwave he can't plug in, or ten shirts that were gonna soon be floating in sewage whether he took them or not.