We bring your attention to Reason Number Five.
5. We can use beads and doubloons to armor the levees, because we sure don’t want to use cups for bailing.
We think that’s very funny, and a great reminder that the flooding of New Orleans was anything but a natural disaster. And that the levees, addition to being too low, badly designed and badly constructed, should have had armoring on them.
Click here for the Editorial and the full list of reasons why Float Riders should throw us something on Mardi Gras Day 2011.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/03/why_you_should_throw_us_someth.html
Happy Mardi Gras!