More clips from the margins of a tragedy

Stories not getting primary coverage, but perhaps just as telling:

• Bitch Ph.D. notes the loss of irreplacable archives of historical data, including slave documents and jazz recordings.
  
  
• In the category You Can't Make Up Irony This Good, the contracts for rebuilding damaged military sites is awarded to Haliburton (see also here).
  (via Follow Me Here)
  
  
• Update: in related developments, Bush suspends labor laws in Katarina emergency areas so that contractors doing reconstruction can stiff the guys on the ground. Sorry if I sound bitter.
  
  
• Despite herself, Laura Bush makes clear her discomfort with brown people.

(This group intended as a sort of follow-up to this post, which turned out to be highlighting the central themes of subsequent debate...)