He's made the definitive documentary on the Katrina disaster, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The first part played last night on HBO, and the second plays tonight at 9pm. Everyone should catch it if they can, it's pretty incredible, and you see Spike Lee is really an exceptional documentarian. Not a whole lot of people come out as heroes in this, with the possible exception of Lt. Gen. Russel Honore. You remember him, the guy who ended every sentence with "over."



When he comes into New Orleans he starts screaming at the cops "Get those weapons down!" he became my new hero. It was if the entire situation was under control, New Orleans was no longer an occupied state, it was back in America once he was there. If only our retarded government sent him in sooner, rather than 5 days into the crisis, it wouldn't have been such a crisis. I could be wrong, I wasn't there, but to see him take charge, you see how much of a failure Katrina was, because there were people capable of taking the situation in hand, and getting aid to the victims of the storm. Bush was just too busy giving speeches in San Diego about terrah, and slapping Brownie on the back to know that what New Orleans really needed was this guy. Or as Mayor Nagin described him, "the black John Wayne."

Sean Penn and his boat was also a sight to see.