A Vacant Lott

Trent Lott was one of the people who lost his home to Hurricane Katrina:

An oak tree may be all that is left of the home where Sen. Trent Lott raised his family and joined other political leaders for a rocking-chair view of the sea.

Lott, a Mississippi Republican, learned from neighbors and relatives that the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina, rising as high as 30 feet, leveled his Pascagoula home along the Gulf Coast near the Alabama border.

Of course, if you read all the way to the end of the article, you learn

Lott has a second house in Jackson, Miss.

So Lott's suffering isn't equal to that of most other affected Mississippians and, most fortunately, neither he nor any of his family was harmed. I'm sure his home was fully insured, and that whatever insurer he has will bend over backwards to provide good service to a rich and connected Republican. (That would go double if it's the federal flood insurance that's triggered.)

Someone less liberal than me might suggest some divine hand was at work. But I don't share Pat Robertson's theology.

Someone less tactful than me might suggest that Lott's house would have survived had he built it out of the same material as his toupee. But I wish the Senator well.