Culture War and Katrina

[pegkerr]

Here's an excellent article in Salon analyzing how the two opposite sides of the culture war (think of Lakoff's analysis) look at the devastation of New Orleans and see two completely different things, coming up with completely different conclusions about what happened and what should be done.

Edited to add: Here is a list, with illustrative excerpts, of a sampling of liberal blogs vs. conservative blogs. They are truly seeing things with entirely different orientations.