Today was different, aside from being summer and waking up at 5:30 in the afternoon. No, today I did something I haven't done since I had to in the tenth grade: I read a newspaper.

Not just any newspaper, it was the "Toronto Star". The big bold and coloured headlines caught my attention as I was walking down the stairs to my room; it read "Anarchy". Anarchy, you don't see that everyday in the papers; and what was this anarchy about? New Orleans; New Orleans is becoming a third world city inside a first world country.

People in New Orleans are living in the Superdome with no running water, very little of any food, and no electricity. They are also living on the streets and other large partially damaged buildings. They are looting stores, having Mexican stand-offs with the cops and raping each other, all while waiting for the apparent buses to arrive and take them to safety. Of course, this makes almost no sense...unless of course, neither does the president.

Yes, that's right, I have turned this talk about Anarchy in New Orleans into a rant about George W. Bush. What is going in New Orleans: a bunch of National Guard, cops, and even some military personnel are guarding stores, casinos, and stoping convicts from escaping instead of helping people who are dying. Where are the convicts going to go. They are beating people and threating to beat journalists who take photos of it. The buses stil haven't arrived to evacuate people, there aren't even portable toilets, just guess where these people are going. What has the president done? He has sent more military, and 10.5 billion dollars to save these people. Yet, why is there still a hold up. I don't know.