Katrina at 20

FEMA Louisiana

            Catania           Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans on September 9, 1965, days after I had begun my senior year in high school.  Those were the old days when school didn’t start until after Labor Day.  The night the hurricane came, our whole family stayed, along with others, in the city’s central business district on the …

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Bullies Need a Bogey Man

Trump

            Catania           This was creepy.  Last night meeting in the early evening with two comrades and supporters who have long worked to bring ACORN to Sicily, as it does inevitably, the question finally came at me, asking what were Americans doing “about Trump.”  It was déjà vu all over again.  We had just been talking …

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