Good News sort of

This is blunt but true, from Thomas Barnett:

Sad to watch the news coverage, which always seems to wallow in the suffering of others with a weird sort of pomp and circumstance. We hear the word "chaos" a lot (Aaron Brown on CNN seems addicted to it), when scattered looting hardly seems to add up to "chaos." But the media love hyperbole, and natural disasters give the talking heads a chance to break out all the over-the-top terms with abandon, demonstrating yet again how they "hold us together" during these desperate moments.
Still, as bad as it got today along the Gulf, it's important to remember that there's really no place on earth better than America to experience a natural disaster. Frankly, you're better off being a dog in the U.S. than being a human in most of the world when a serious disaster hits. No, there's never "enough" response, but there's more here in the U.S. than you ever see anywhere else, and that demonstrated resiliency should teach us something about ourselves and our networks.

Our prayers go out to those who are suffering, as well as those getting looted.