Harry Shearer is funny as heck but a political douche. New Orleans is built on a delta marsh, so by definition "it is subject to frequent or continuous flood". Could the engineering have been better? Yes. But engineering is a precise and difficult enterprise in which sometimes mistakes are made. Listening to Shearer spewing his sage hindsight about the failures of the Army Corps of Engineers, laced with plentiful doses of nerdy arrogance, is nauseating.
Harry Shearer is funny as heck but a political douche. New Orleans is built on a delta marsh, so by definition "it is subject to frequent or continuous flood". Could the engineering have been better? Yes. But engineering is a precise and difficult enterprise in which sometimes mistakes are made. Listening to Shearer spewing his sage hindsight about the failures of the Army Corps of Engineers, laced with plentiful doses of nerdy arrogance, is nauseating.
alvie3 2 years ago
Great to see Harry Shearer focus on New Orleans, post Katrina --- as the city sweats out the possible arrival of Hurricane Gustav.
"The Feds drowned our city, and it's not an Act of Charity to make it right" ...
"Army Corp of Engineers' levees the worst engineering disaster in US History"
quicksite 3 years ago
Bohemian Grove- so I hear. Still love the guy.
asdffd 3 years ago