Pickling the Poor, by Mark Fiore

Mark Fiore, a brilliant political commentator, has been putting out some great stuff for quite some time. His latest animation, which commemorates Hurricane Katrina, is one of his best yet. (Click on either screen capture to go to his Website, where Pickling the Poor, his Katrina animation, will automatically begin.)

For those of you who have not followed the saga of New Orleans since Katrina literally blew away a once-great American city, the topics Fiore covers in this piece are true, from formaldehyde-laced trailers to the planned rebuilding of New Orleans to drive out the poor, it's all been in the news. However, with the many other disasters the Bush administration is tending to, it tends to be relegated to the back pages of the paper, not the front of them.

Heckuva job, Fiore, heckuva job.