The Houston Chronicle launches an experiment in citizen journalism. Unsurprisingly, it’s more sensible than a lot of the MSM coverage:

For those who are inclined to rail against “the government,” especially about the failure to provide gasoline for the long lines of evacuees on the highways yesterday, I offer a counterpoint: Houston and Harris County have done as excellent a job as they can. No plan survives contact with the enemy, sayeth the old military epigram. In this case, the “enemy” is a major threat to the fourth largest city in America…Rita. We learned from Katrina – and now we have more lessons to absorb.