Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!

BBC: CAJUN CULTURE WASHING AWAY

SEP 1 Here's a feature from the BBC that looks at Louisiana's coastal loss and the very real threat it poses to Cajun culture. (Of course, that should make our governor happy, since he says immigration without assimilation is invasion. But we digress.) There are some cool old photos here, but unfortunately, the story points out, it's not just the people pictured who are gone. The cities pictured are gone as well.
CHRONICLE TO HOUSTON: STOP SAYING THAT

SEP 1 After Katrina, a lot of displaced people ended up in Houston. Shortly thereafter, the urban legend that attributed all and sundry crime to those people was born, and it lives to this day. This post in the Houston Chronicle takes a look at the data - and finds that it is just not true.
THE AL JAZEERA INTERVIEW WITH THE GENERAL

SEP 1 Al Jazeera posts this video interview with General Russel Honore, as he stands in New Orleans and remembers what happened 10 years ago. Interspersed with clips from that time, Honore talks about the past but also looks forward.
THE LESSONS WE NEVER LEARNED

SEP 1 This is a brief, yet thoughtful, commentary upon the 10th anniversary of Katrina by John McQuaid on Medium. In a tight collection of eloquent sentences, he sums up why a hurricane became an unimaginable disaster, and what we have refused to learn from those mistakes.
ONE WORD: SKOOKS

SEP 1 If you are a member of the Twitterverse and you aren't following this guy, you're missing out. This post on the Advocate is a profile of Skooks, a librarian who has some of the funniest tweets. Very often, Skooks tweets about New Orleans and Louisiana, but he does cover a lot of ground.
FLOOD OF LIES

SEP 1 This is kind of another Katrina story, but it's really a look at the stories told by education reformers. Katrina gets dragged in because "reformers" like to point to the "success" of the RSD as proof that their brand of reform works. But since this is posted on the Cloaking Inequity site, you have to know what's coming next, right?