Option 1: Build Levees

At HuffingtonPost.com, Harry Shearer’s latest blog post highlights a new strategy for dealing with the construction and design errors that led to Katrina’s flooding:

WWL-TV, a television station that actually appears to take the phrase “local news” with an unusual (for this country) degree of seriousness, is reporting that Corps employees have been logging on to nola.com, a main news aggregating and commenting website for local news, to denigrate critics of the agency:

“What stuck out though was the wording of the comments, in many ways mirroring the news releases from the corps of engineers,” (former nola.com editor in chief Jon) Donley said.

…Donley said he also noticed these users who attacked corps critics were using corps equipment. He made a spreadsheet of the activity over six weeks at the end of December and beginning of January.

“During that six-week period, there were nearly 700 comments from corps IPs, the same group of people I had been watching for over two years,” Donley said. “So this was not an isolated incident.”