Disaster sociology according to

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Disaster sociology according to Bill O’Reilly. Or, Two views on who didn’t get out.

From today’s Times: “Brian Wolshon, an engineering professor at Louisiana State University who served as a consultant on the state’s evacuation plan, said little attention was paid to moving out New Orleans’s ‘low-mobility” population – the elderly, the infirm and the poor without cars or other means of fleeing the city, about 100,000 people.'”

O’Reilly, on his show last night: “A lot of the people — a lot of the people who stayed wanted to do this destruction. They figured it out. And that’s — I’m not surprised.”

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