My classmate and friend, now Judge Jose Cabranes, who is originally from Puerto Rico, pointed me to an op-ed of his about the tragedy there, for which click here. He makes clear the devastation yet to come because of the human drain. I wrote him back that I feared that our mainland politics would not straighten out until Puerto Ricans came and straightened us out. Like Jose, I’m praying for our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters and the land they call home.