Given Ike's path, I just read a disturbing article about the Red Cross and its current lack of emergency funds. No one expects a contribution on par with that of Eastside93, who contributed $600 after Gustav. But please contribute --...
Emails from my son:Just letting you know I am here. About to weather the storm, out of the danger zone.Wow, Ma, what a night. It’s Waterworld. Winds very high and relentless. We are losing some of the dock. No surge...
As dire as the consequences were for stunned Gulf coast residents in the aftermath of Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, they are going to be worse, this time, after Hurricane Gustav. That is because the insurance companies who were so criminally...
Billy Glad started an interesting discussion last week about whether or not the Boomer generation should turn over their power to those who are younger because "it is their turn."The initial response by-passed the issue raised in favor of attempting...
Sunday morning and plenty of favorable signs: sunny skies; cool breeze; birds chirping; strong coffee and time for a leisurely scan of the day’s news. FISA articles? Not today. Campaign update? Nah, tomorrow is soon enough. Instead, a...
Further notes for flood victims:1) Keep in mind that most houses that are catastrophically water-damaged and which remain empty (if boarded-up) for a year or more will have to be torn down due to deteriorating structural issues and irreversible infiltration...
Here's how it works: "Apres le deluge, " weeks will go by before an insurance adjuster shows up. In the meantime, you camp under a partial roof, without windows or doors, without power or water. Sane people would flee, yet...
This I know from personal experience; I lost a waterfront "dream house" to Hurricane Ivan's tidal surge in 2004: The flood damage itself is, incredibly, only the beginning of the homeowners' nightmare. And it is a third circle of hell...
Michelle Obama is being serially swift-boated with both sexist and racist slurs. Yet Hillary Clinton -- who so recently suffered similar attacks of sexism, though not racism -- is unaccountably silent.We understand that Hillary is tired – God knows,...
There is a particularly mean-spirited email floating around that urges you, as a "patriotic American," to boycott all Chinese products from June 4th -July 4th. It's filled with the usual angry flag-waving, breast-beating, "we're-number-one" righteousness that so distinguishes us in...
One of the most beautiful moments of last night in St. Paul was after Obama's speech, after he had done the rope tour and was heading out of the arena proper. An Obama-of-tomorrow boy -- seven or eight? -- was...
