Bush left his ranch and the Cindy Sheehan protesters early, because the world needed attention. How could anyone be so brutal as to impede the president as he speeds to deal with affairs in Iraq, or New Orleans under water, with hundreds dying in the flood?
Actually he went to a naval base called Coronada, to [...]

Sam Miller is consoled by a neighbour after viewing the destruction of his home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, shot by William Colgin.

People make their way down Tulane Avenue as flood waters swamp most of New Orleans, shot by Sean Gardner.

This is strange, isn’t it? And obsessive? And credulous?
Scratches head. Rubs belly.
“Now, courtesy of American child-development scientist Joseph Garcia and his book Joseph Garcia’s Complete Guide to Baby Signing, it’s catching on here. I have three children. Raymond, eight, and Leonard, two, are too old, but Jerry, at one, is the perfect age [...]

Hurricane Katrina, from a satellite, taken at 9:45 am EDT, Aug. 29, 2005.

Something bad happened to Dock of the Bay.
Where are you, Kent?
And after a long gap, Kyan Gadac is back. One fine writer.
Also, La Nadine made me piss myself with this. Full transcript is here.
When you have done with that, Restarea is going dongablasters at the moment.

Here’s a bad moment for documentary filmmakers.
Roar Films, in Tasmania, made a film called The Fisherman: A Journey Into the Mind of a Killer, about James O’Neill, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of nine-year-old Ricky John Smith in 1975.
Miller has sued Roar Films for defamation, and taken out an [...]

Joseph Barnes, who is homeless, stands in the nearly deserted French Quarter with his cat Patches. Barnes said he was not allowed to enter the Superdome shelter with his cat, because pets were not permitted in the shelter. He said he was unsure where he would spend the night. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
“The city’s [...]

As a practical incarnation of my post on American health, go to Laura at Sills Bend, here.
You will see why when you get there – which is just an electronic trice.
Personally, I wish we could find some way to get the Badget to immigrate, along with all her friends.

You want to know the impact of Cindy Sheehan?
Dave Trowbridge is a Christian – very unlike me – but/and/so I enjoy his company sometimes on his blog, which takes me into another world.
He wrote this about her, and the political movement building around her stance.
Oh, and this.

Army chaplain Capt. Daoud Agbere, right, a Muslim cleric, prays for an American soldier after he was pronounced dead upon arrival at a military hospital in Baghdad, on Tuesday, Nov. 9th, 2004, despite the efforts of Army Nurse supervisor Patrick McAndrew, left, to revive him. The soldier was fatally wounded in a Baghdad firefight with [...]