cockroaches!

Was listening to this report on NPR's Morning Edition about fighting asthma in households in Los Angeles. Sarah Varney commented that many of the Mexican families that healthcare workers visit won't admit to having cockroaches in the house, lest people think they're, well, dirty Mexicans.

Those folks wouldn't last a day and a half in New Orleans. The cockroaches own this town and simply allow us to live here with them.