CHRISTINE HURT on the wildfires:

I find it interesting that the media seems so uninterested in the cause of the fires. The media focuses on the high winds, low humidity, drought conditions, and high temperatures, but these are factors that lead to the rapid spread of the fire and the difficulty of containing the fire, not the factors that caused these fires. During Hurricane Katrina, questions were swirling in the media — Why didn’t people evacuate? Why weren’t they forced to evacuate? Who decided to have inferior levees? Who could have prevented this? Why isn’t anyone asking these questions about the Texas fires?

I’m guessing it’s because they can’t see a way to turn it into a partisan political issue.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Sissy Willis looks at who fanned the fires in a different conflagration.