Looting Revisited

In this August 30 post about Hurricane Katrina, I provided folks with a definition of looting:

Looting
to rob especially on a large scale and usually by violence or corruption

New today and yesterday, reminds me that in the wake of devastation, the real looters the past few months were not the folks gooching some plasma wide-screens.

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