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PSAYINGS.5A.19. We chanced to hear some of Sean Hannity's radio show yesterday and were dumbfounded at his air of suspicion about the $250 billion aid package being requested by Louisiana's two U.S. Senators, Mary Landrieu(D) and David Vitter(R). It's a bit pricey, to be sure, but it is bipartisan, and $250 billion represents only a $1000 contribution by every man, woman, and child in the United States. But to hear Hannity talk, you'd have thought these two statespeople were trying to pull off the biggest heist in history. The things he said about Louisiana! As if corruption and graft and greed were built into the very landscape of the state, infecting earth and air and water to the point where no one is to be trusted, not even the first Republican senator since, well, ever. Does Hannity know that Huey Long is 70 years dead and buried? Just because this happened on the exact anniversary of Long's death is no reason to give in to some spooky paranoia about Louisiana larceny.

We think it's appropriate to take a deep breath at this point and remind ourselves of the catastrophe that got us here. That's why we're posting the following gallery of New Orleans flood photos. So no one will forget the pitiful state of things we all want to correct. We just hope that Brother Hannity will take the time to study the photos as carefully as we have done. He might learn something.