Houstonians show little alacrity

Highways leading out of Houston were described today as parking lots as a million people suddenly woke up and decided to flee the latest catastrophic hurricane. (As late as Wednesday, a local paper published this story with its mild suggestion that "it may soon be time to pack up and leave.")

I wonder which sinners God is aiming at this time. Could it be the greedy oil barons who profit from every calamity, with the price spikes following Katrina being just the latest example? Could it be dishonest politicians like Tom DeLay, whose district is a bullseye? Could it even be a belated punishment for Texas slaveholders who never told their slaves that the South had lost the war?

Nah -- probably the homosexuals again.