Apparently, in the spirit of true capitalism and entreprenuership, a tour company will start offering tours of New Orleans that highlight the destruction wrought by hurricane Katrina. You won't be permitted to stop and take photographs, but because 10% of the $35 ticket price goes to relief efforts, you won't have to feel any guilt about your schadenfreude.
Actually, this reminds me of an idea I had a while ago for a novel tour company. My idea was too bring people into the "bad" sections of town - in a bulletproof van of course - as part of a tour that would specialize in "showing people the side of the city they see on the news, not in tourist brochures." I bet you that hundreds, maybe thousands, would sign up to go on a midnight - 2am tour of some of the worst sections of our cities, just to see first-hand what happens, as long as they could be assured of their complete safety. Imagine going through Camden, West Philadelphia, Anacostia & SE DC at that time of night. Pretty scary, but probably also pretty interesting and eye opening to those whose perception of these realities is limited to Hollywood movies and nightly news reports.
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