Just a brief note that I haven’t been able to post as much as usual this week because I’ve been trying to help some older relatives left in bad shape by the hurricane. Normally a Presidential election would have meant that I would be posting stuff 24/7.

A big thanks to all the FEMA representatives I’ve met. They’ve been wonderful. And if you mention Mitt Romney’s loss to any of these people, you will experience the very definition of gloating. Apparently they were none too thrilled by his primary season proposal to dismantle their agency. Let’s hope the age of demonizing government workers and schoolteachers ends. These folks are not the enemy.