Many of you may have noticed my absence over the past week. Well, my life has been pretty hectic. I realized that, as a law student, I probably needed to find a way to attend classes after Tulane cancelled classes due to Hurricane Katrina. Although state schools have yet to recieve authortization to waive tution for displaced students, I was pleased to find that private law schools have opened their arms to the evacuees. So to make a long story short, I have registered as a visiting student at South Texas College of Law.

Really, I’ve never been prouder of Houston than now. The response — the outpooring of charity and goodwill — has been staggering. I’m especially thankful for the response of South Texas College of Law and other schools that have hosted displaced students at no cost, given how it has affected me personally. Ultimately, I believe that I’ll always consider the Houston area my home.

Stung by withering criticism from figures across the political spectrum regarding its perceived slow response to Hurricane Katrina, Federal Emergency Management officials moved promptly today to fix a breach in the otherwise perfect hair on Gov. Rick Perry’s head.

A picture of the flagrantly disheveled lock of hair was captured by roving LST photo-correspondent Katya Horner, and is reproduced below:

Wide-shot– stray lock is mercifully difficult to see

Close-up of renegade hair strand

Contacted by LST staff, FEMA director Michael D. Brown quickly responded to the crisis by redirecting a helicopter from relief efforts in New Orleans to the hill underneath the "Hollywood" sign outside Los Angeles.

There, over five-hundred bottles of day-spa quality product were quickly loaded aboard for a return flight to the Astrodome, where the entire payload was promptly dumped on the Governor’s head.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (center, shorts) braces as a FEMA helicopter dumps 500 bottles of mousse on his head outside of the Astrodome

Developing…

NOTE: For the terminally dense, the above story is not true.

Well Houston, we have finally hit the Big Time!

The New York Times has slandered Houston!

As reported by KTRK ABC13, The New York Times ran a story claiming that Houston is a profiteer (or at least profiting) from the Katrina disaster. But if an above the fold story wasn’t enough to drag the good name of our city through the mud, it then re-print and augmented the story in The International Herald Tribune, which is published by the Times in Paris.

That’s Paris, France folks; not Paris, Texas.

Here are the quotes in the international version, starting with the first line of the article:

"No one would accuse this city of being timid in the scramble to profit from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."

Later, it says: "A surge of business activity in Houston might lift the fortune of a city that is still struggling to recover from the collapse of Enron and two decades of job cuts in the energy industry."

But the best item used by both papers was to compare “a Houston real estate company to ambulance chasers for offering special financing to hurricane victims.”

What a bunch of nice people those New York Times people are…….. It doesn’t matter if we, as a society, people, city or what have you, have opened our hearts and wallets to the victims of this tragedy, the New York Times still can’t find it in their heart, or at least the editors and writers can’t find it in their hearts, to at least acknowledge the contributions made. Somehow, they have to take a shot at us………

But then again, you can never accuse the New York Times of trying to make money, because they seem to lose so much of it.

Background: The wheels on the bus go round and round.
Or… did they?

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