I have been blogging very lightly of late, partly because I'm still on vacation in Buffalo/Niagara and partly because I'm focusing a lot on little Lorenzo. But I should point out that Pete Boettke has an important post today--a timely and concise summary of "what we have learned" since hurricane Katrina. How do we avoid a repeat of the madness of Katrina? This has as much to do with popular attitudes and beliefs about the locus of responsibility in a free society as it does with incompetent bureaucrats or cost-minimizing/vote-maximizing politicians. Pete rightly casts this as a heretofore unmet challenge to public choice.