"The Raft of the Medusa"

The immense 1819 painting by Théodore Géricault, recalls events oddly redolent of the last week's in New Orleans, from the incompetence of the Bourbon political appointee put in charge of the Medusa who ran it onto a sand bar to the pointless fighting among the survivors on the life raft. Wikipedia has the story. Unlike the claims of black activist Randall Robinson about survivors in New Orleans, however, the sailors really did resort to resort to cannibalism after only four days.

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