Crest and recede.

It's the last day of the conference and, with fifteen hours sleep in the last three days, I'm coasting on optimism and caffeine. Cross your fingers for me and read about someone with real problems, like the people being "rescued" in New Orleans.

Choice quote: "Throughout, the official relief effort was callous, inept and racist. There was more suffering than need be. Lives were lost that did not need to be lost." (hosted on SocialistWorkerOnline -- thanks, Pac).