"The Drowned and the Saved"

Check out this remarkable entry from sociologist Kieran Healy, one of the participants in the prominent group blog, Crooked Timber.

PS: I have suspended my authorial convention of "lagniappe" posts for the time being, normally reserved for non-higher education entries, when I want to offer "a little extra," a small gift. I love this Cajun term, what Mark Twain said in Life on the Mississippi is "a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get," but it seems inappropriate for Katrina's aftermath...