JPod's keeping a running list

John Podhoretz is keeping track of the worst excesses of rhetoric from Hurrican Katrina. First it was rapper Kanye West who wandered off script on NBC's fundraiser for hurrican relief. But that is done one worse by this noisome bit of smug racism by Steve Sailer.

It's a general rule that the tastier the indigenous cuisine, the lousier the government. Its culture has provided America with jazz, A Street Car Named Desire, and the great American comic novel of the 20th Century, A Confederacy of Dunces. New Orleans is a nice place to visit. But you wouldn't want to raise your kids there.. . .

"Let the good times roll" is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.

I knew the city and state government have a reputation for incompetence and corruption, but Sailer's casual bigotry, masquerading as sophistication, seems kind of goofy, not to mention revolting.