"in Gulfport, a bar rations its cold beers"

My favorite headline of the week:

Potbellied pig resists evacuation; in Gulfport, a bar rations its cold beers

Having lived for a time in New Orleans, and marrying into a deep southern family, this part broke my heart

Biloxi's Beau Rivage casino reopened its bar and the longnecks even had cold sweat on them. They're rationed: three per customer.

Mike Van Grinsven wasn't completely happy. He said he'd lost a new $3,500 Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty and all his other guitars to a storm so fearsome "there were goats hanging in the trees near my house."

Glenn Fairley was nearly blissed out.

"It's nice to hear some music instead of news," he said.

Kandis Glasier of Saucier, Miss., enjoying a Coors Light, was near to swooning, too.

"You can kind of forget what it's like and remember what it used to be like," she said.

The storm was so fearsome "there were goats hanging in the trees..."

Another great headline

Fla. Pilots 'Counseled' for Rescues

but an infuriating story... read it. These guys were trying to, and succeeding in, saving lives for fucking christ sake!

And has this guy been smoking too much ice or is he one of the Bush pride?

Nichols said Udkow was in no way being punished by being put in charge of a temporary kennel in Pensacola for pets of military personnel who had been evacuated from hurricane-stricken areas.

"It's a collateral duty," Nichols said. "These guys don't just fly. They do other stuff."

what a creep. "It's a collateral duty"... Fuck you punk! People are dying and this retard is putting helicopter pilots in dog kennels!