If there was any doubt that the mayor of New Orleans was an incompetent bureaucrat (and the governor of Louisiana wasn't much better) then this story should disabuse you. You see, Hurricane Katrina left thousands of useless, flooded cars throughout the city. Six months ago a Texas car-crushing company offered to remove all of these cars -- and pay the city $100 each for them. Nagin -- in his infinite wisdom -- turned down the offer and will instead spend $23 million in taxpayer dollars to have those cars removed.

Don't laugh (or cry) too hard -- you can bet that even if you don't live in Louisiana, you'll be paying for this mess because the federal government is still bailing them out -- figuratively (no pun intended).