Hurricane Katrina's power not only destroyed an entire city, it caused a number of people to make absolutely moronic statements.  Take CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, whose on-the-air Jimmy the Greek moment thus far has been given a mysterious free pass by the media, the likes of which are usually reserved to the Bush Administration.  "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black . . . ."

Blitzer's gaffe can be excused since he was forced to speak sans teleprompter, which is like permitting a blind man to fly a commerical jet.  But the following social commentary was posted by that self-absorbed, academe dufus Glenn Reynolds, who argued that every household should stockpile supplies in preparation for a disaster: 

Whenever I say this, I get responses along the lines of "poor people can't afford to stockpile food." But here's a family survival kit for $50 (link omitted) and it's pretty good. Most poor people in America can afford food (that's why so many poor people are fat). They do have other problems that make preparation less likely, though (if you're the kind of person who thinks ahead and prepares for emergencies, you're much less likely to be poor to begin with) and local authorities have to be ready . . . .

And this man is a law professor, teaching the impressionable (read gullible) minds at the University of Tennessee Law School in subjects such as Constitutional Law and the very practical Space Law.  Note: The survival kit Reynolds referred to included 12 cans of Dinty Moore beef stew.

To Professor Reynolds I pose the following in the Socratic method: Have you lost your fucking mind?