Why are the Minnesota Vikings, expected by many to make a Super Bowl run this year, 0-2 and in a free fall?

The answer's obvious - they're horrible at evaluating talent.

"George Bush Don't Like Black People"

"Five days in this motherf***ing attic
I can't use the cellphone I keep getting static
Dying 'cause they lying instead of telling us the truth (...)
Screwed 'cause they say they're coming back for us, too
but that was three days ago and I don't see no rescue (...)

Swam to the store, tryin' to look for food
Corner store's kinda flooded so I broke my way through
Got what I could but before I got through
News say the police shot a black man trying to loot...."

Video here.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Hurricane Katrina

I don't think here's a whole lot I can say about the hurricane (and the response to it, or lack thereof) that hasn't already been said, other than watch the spin, check the facts, and if you can, call your congressmen and women and demand an independent bipartisan investigation of the response to this disaster (as you may know, Republicans voted on almost universal party lines to shoot down this idea -- wonderwhat they're hiding?), so that we can find out who's at fault, and how to fix this debacle so it doesn't happen again in the future. Seriously, 4 years after 9/11, a new Department of Homeland Security, "stream-lined" (aka: underfunded) FEMA, and billions of our tax dollars wasted, and we're not even safe from a storm and flood that they had early warnings about. They better fix this, and soon. Sorry, I'm not even trying to be funny here. It's damn near impossible.