As Faithful Readers know, our Staff here is not a cheering section for bureaucracies, either U.S., International, or local to Anguilla. We have been merciless in trashing the total botch of the Iraq invasion, and the failure of the verbose but incompetent Pentagon and Administration managers (if that is the word for them). This week, though, while frozen to the TV screen and the terrible tales from New Orleans there unfolding, we saw pervasive incompetency everywhere. The stupidities stretched from the lowest local levels up to the States and of course the supposedly revamped National crisis management and the over- vacationed President. You couldn't believe what you saw. Our vocabulary failed, but thanks to The Economist, we have a new word: Ready? The word is "Aischrolatreia". It is right there in the Webster's Unabridged, and it means "Worship of filth; cult of the obscene". Nothing else fits so well.

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