Wonkette

Sometimes it pays to read an article all the way through. This gem was buried deep in a lengthy Times piece about fraudulent claims for Hurricane Katrina relief: MORE »

When FEMA was absorbed into the greater Homeland Security apparatus, the protocol for immediate disaster relief operations changed. An event labeled an “incident of national significance” — like Hurricane Katrina — meant an automatic realignment of bureaucratic hierarchy, and Michael Brown was technically demoted before he should have been fired. The Washington Post snagged some 80 e-mails which were furiously sent back and forth among now-high-profile incompetents, who also don’t talk so good: MORE »

Mad cow disease was the reason meat and poultry donated by the UK to help Katrina victims never wound up in American bellies. Instead, the food has idled, at a cost of $16,000 per month, in an Arkansas warehouse. MORE »

Did you ever think Mike Meyers could be at a loss for words? During NBC’s benefit concert tonight, Meyers and ego-riffic Kanye West “rapped” in the emotive sense about Katrina, but then suddenly Kanye got all. . . racial and shit, talking about how he hates how his people are portrayed and what not. Then he admitted that he went shopping before donating, but that “my business manager is looking into” how much he can give. Then things got weird: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” he said. People are upset about this, but, by our lights, West could have put it more strongly and still been okay for primetime. Anyway. . . First, we love that Kanye apologized for going shopping before donating. We’re returning our Target placemats tomorrow, Kanye! Second, the look on Mike Meyers’s face… Clearly, Canadians have more respect for Bush than previously thought. Oh, behave, indeed. MORE »