Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z have pledged $1 million to the American Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

This is what rich people donate. I wonder how many are?

“You donate, I doodle!”

I don’t care how much New Orleans’ bullshit mayor rants, or what kind of pop-hero people want to make him into — he’s no Rudy Giuliani, that man, regardless of his politics, hell, he pulled New York through that mess four years ago. “This is what happened, this is what we’re going to do about it.” This asshole, Nagin, instead, yeah, he’s got a right to be pissed, and he’s got less infastructure and communication to deal with, but it just really seems like the guy can’t take the stress (in fairness: who could?).

And now, this.

National Guardsmen helped evacuate the mass of storm refugees from the Superdome on Friday, where thousands were stuck in knee-deep trash and blacked-out, putrid bathrooms. “This was the worst night of my life,” one mother said.

At one point, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since Sunday.

“How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?” exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.

The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Every pane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.

Mayor Ray Nagin has used the hotel as a base since it is across the street from city hall, and there were reports the hotel was cleared with priority to make room for police, firefighters and other officials.

Here’s an idea: evacuate folks from the hotel to the effin’ superdome. As far as images go, evacuating well-dressed presumeably predominently white-folk who didn’t have it “that” bad while leaving the predominently black-folk who’ve suffered in the superdome is just, let’s face it, wrong.

Back to Nagin:

What.

An.

Asshole.

Prediction: this “priority evacuation” of “well-dressed guests” (the mayor among them? I think yes), right here, is what ends his political career, assuming he had much of one left, that is.

Asshole.