As it did after the attacks on 9/11, Popular Mechanics is once again looking at evidence and debunking myths, this time combating the false information spread during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

For example, this is rather startling:

[T]he response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest–and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history.

The 9/11 article (March 2005) is here.

Here’s one to kickstart the week for you Google monkeys / online political junkies.

Trivia question:

Which local candidate has called Rep. Tre Hargett a “gut-less [sic] coward,” referred to Senate candidate Terry Roland as “a watered down candidate,” asked his potential contributors to “get off [their] lazy butt[s]” and vows to vote for legislation that will allow the dead to “pursue the[ir] offending… perpetrators”?

Extra credit if you can also call up the two platform planks on his campaign website that have recently been removed or rewritten.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your (search) engines!