New York Times Believes in Ghosts

Can somebody please put Maureen Dowd in touch with Anne Rice? She needs to hire a vampire or two.

"I thought you evacuated the Cambodian baby."

From today's NYT:

"New Orleans's literary lore and tourist lure was its fascination with the dead and undead, its lavish annual Halloween party, its famous above-ground cemeteries, its love of vampires and voodoo and zombies. But now that the city is decimated, reeking with unnecessary death and destruction, the restless spirits of New Orleans will haunt the White House."

Read the full story here.

And more on the Bush Administration's legacy of chaos, confusion, suffering, pain and arrogance from the usually placid Mr. Friedman here.