An excellent article

Check out "Elegy," an article about the death of New Orleans by Will Collier at VodkaPundit.

This week has been like watching an old friend die. Every horrible news story is another icicle in the chest. So much has been lost. So many have been taken. So little may be left. The long-term question we ask each other, over and over, is, "Can it ever be what it was again?"

We'll let you see his answer for yourself. Also this:

And among the harshest of the catastrophie's side-effects, the very worst of the city has been on display to the world this week. Inept public officials, lack of planning and preparation, and the lethal unleashing of a hard-core criminal element so brutal, it's been attacking aid workers who were the first to try and help.

There's much more.