The sides are lining up

It's Carnival season. Which side are you on? This attempt by the Quality Inn on St Charles to throw evacuees out on the street in order to prepare for the "city's season of special events" is only a taste of the coming atrocities the city's aristocratic and corporate classes intend to inflict upon the poor and the displaced in New Orleans as we get closer and closer to the Most Soulless Mardi Gras Ever. I've got some thoughts on this coming in a future post. The short version is I'm having difficulty getting excited about Mardi Gras this year. There are too many sinister side stories to justify supporting it. Anyone who is familiar with the annual fanatic Carnival blogging on this site will know that that is indeed saying something