A company called Gray Line is now offering a
sightseeing tour of the devastation in New Orleans:
We'll drive past an actual levee that "breached" and see the resulting devastation that displaced hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents.
"You'll be amazed," the ad says, at all the things you will learn about New Orleans -- as you rubberneck at the desperate conditions of your countrymen. Why the only thing this tour lacks is a tour of the infamous Superdome bathrooms, having your picture made with authentic victims living in tents and collecting your own contaminated soil samples from the Ninth Ward to show your friends back home.
One day it will be instructive for people to see what happened in New Orleans. But if I were living in a tent in front of my house that had taken 11 feet of water because FEMA's promised trailer is parked with thousands of others in Texas --- and then a busload of tourists comes by to gawk -- I'd have to pick up a hefty piece of authentic storm debris and hurl it in their direction.
But that's just me.