Friday Femmes Fatales No 22

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.

Since I'm on holiday in France, I should be looking for French female bloggers, but to be frank the internet cafe is neither comfortable enough - it is supposed to be non fumeur but I keep getting great gusts of cigarette smoke from the air-conditioning - nor is the beach far enough away - to justify it. So if you know any, please tell me about them (whether they write in French or English).

So again this week I'm revisiting some old favourites ...

Now I haven't been following the Katrina debate in the blogosphere this week - after some spirited engagements on Blogcritics last week - but reading it in the French papers instead. (And yes they are slightly gloating, but then after a couple of years of being called cheese-easting surrender monkeys I can excuse that.)

But Bitch PhD has a nice roundup of blogs on the subject, and some thoughts of her own. Sharon on Early Modern Notes, meanwhile, is finding parallels in the Great Fire of London, "a vulnerable city, warnings ignored...." There's also a nice collection of links about the "Great Plague", in cqse you were wondering about what might be next.

Frogs and Ravens has a solution, impeachment. Much as I agree with her sentiments, I just can't face it - imagine going through the whole Clinton saga all over again! Kameron on Brutal Women, meanwhile, reports that an entire city in Oregon disappeared under similar circumstances. (The question I haven't seen asked, but keep wondering about, is whether it makes any sense to rebuild New Orleans, when an equally bad or even worse hurricane could just as easily come along next year, or next decade?)

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