February 28, 2006
By: C.Whyte

What's left to say about Hurricane Katrina? A few months of press, a few months of debate, and constant refute to the government have all been overplayed and hyped up by the media. I'm not saying that I do not care about the natural disaster; rather I am tired of people stretching everything out and twisting around the truth. A hurricane occurred. As a natural disaster, I think we can all agree that it was a terrible travesty, but is there anything to say on the 'lighter side' of this? In other words, is there anything funny about Hurricane Katrina?

Hear me out: a disaster happened, but isn't all comedy based around tragedy? In that sense, there has to be something out there funny about the 'cane, right?

How about the name the hurricane got? I mean, what's the deal with that? Some scientist out there came up with the grand idea of naming all tropical storms after women (and some less important things that I cannot think of right now) and men, which seems to be one of the worst ideas in the world. How is someone with that name going to feel about traveling down south? Is New Orleans going to ban visitors from entering with that name? Is New Orleans sexist? He world will never know, but with the size of the hurricane that struck, I would not be surprised.

Isn't there a little humor in the fact that the most looted object was beef jerky? If I was looting, I'd steal TV's and cars and whatnot, not beef jerky, regardless of how hungry I was. I mean, beef jerky is not even something that you can eat a lot of before getting sick, not to mention that it has almost no nutritional value. I don't know, maybe it's not that funny, but to me it just seems ridiculous.