I'll Give You Something to Look Smashed About!

That 64-year-old retiree beaten stupid by two New Orleans cops and two feds, who claimed the perp was being apprehended for "public intoxication"? Says he hasn't had a drink in 25 years. (Links via Sploid; click the second one for video.)

"Jack Dunphy," the pseudonymous LAPD officer-slash-National Review writer, with whom I frequently disagree, has more on NOLA's dysfunctional force.

Also well worth a read is an eyewitness account of post-Katrina New Orleans from native journalist eminence Michael Lewis.