re: Louisiana Coastal Erosion.

One thing I read a couple of years ago is that the parkinglotization if middle America has resulted in less sediment to flow down the Mississippi, and also the river's water flow to be much faster than in decades past. Don't know if it's true or not. But clearly it means shite that happens in states hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of miles from us, affects our geology and ecology in Louisiana.

I also believe that we've kidded ourselves about what our state actually looks like. In our minds' eyes, most of us think Louisiana looks like the Louisiana from the '30's.

I'm certainly no geologist, engineer, ecologist, or professional environmentalist...but I think about this shite all the time. I can't live anywhere else but down here (I tried, and it doesn't work). Yet I often wonder if Louisiana politicians, wealthy land-owners, and other powers that be in this state aren't purposefully allowing our state to sink into the sea for their own self-serving interests.

John Barry filed the law suit against the major oil companies to get the ball rolling on discussion about corporate environmental culpability and responsibility, and he was basically met with demands to drop the suit and calls for his immediate replacement by Jindal on down.