Without electricity, there wasn’t much to do while evacuated for Gustav in Baton Rouge, so we improvised. Here was a fun game we played: try to identify where one Governor Jindal sentence ends and the next one begins. That was a hard one. He never takes a breath. One time I was sure he set a world record by uttering a 30 minute sentence. Now that’s a talent.

Another game was to try and identify the most controversial thing Mayor Nagin would say in each press conference. I wasn’t very good at this one. I was sure he’d catch hell for the whole “900 mile footprint” line, but no, he got it for the “mother of all storms” routine. Then he made it worse by saying his only regret was saying “mother” of all storms instead of “mother in law” or “ugly sister.” That seemed unnecessary. I mean why’d the sister have to be ugly?

We played lots of stupid games to pass the time. I wonder if that’s what they did every day back before electricity.