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    Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

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    the corps of engineers was finally right about something

    But it’s nothing to cheer about:

    Officials in Des Moines, Iowa, have ordered a mandatory evacuation as a second levee in the city fails under the cresting Des Moines River.

    Early Saturday morning, the river breached a permanent levee, flooding a nearby high school. Crews rushed to set up a temporary sand levee, but the rain-swollen river pushed through that barrier hours after it was erected.

    As flood [...]

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