THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS PICKED UP ON the Gretna bridge-blocking story.

Tom Maguire, however, thinks that the Times is whitewashing the racial angle.

UPDATE: Two thoughts: Yes, this does sound like something out of Lucifer’s Hammer. And, yes, maybe the reason the NYT isn’t mentioning the race angle has something to do with this.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Related racial coverage here.